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No, rice is a natural food grain and birds are well adapted to dealing with it wet or dry.

Birds do not have teeth, all that they peck is swallowed and ground up in a special organ that birds have, called the "gizzard." They eat sand with their food and this sand is used in their gizzards to grind the food.

When the bird fills itself with seeds, they are stored in the birds "crop" a sack that comes before the gizzard (in the crop the food does not get wet).

Thus the unprocessed food does not go into the birds stomach all in one go, it has to go through the crop and gizzard first. For this reason birds can process dry grains without harm.

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