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You may remember having seen something presented by National Geographic about Amazonian jungle birds flying miles to eat clay from a special deposit. Links to YouTube’s select footage is also available on several websites and blogs such as
http://junglebirdseatclay.blogspot.com
Geophagy, or the phenomenon of eating mineral bound clay is not exclusive to macaws.
While six species of macaws are known to frequent exposed Amazonian clay deposits in cliffs bounding rivers and waterways, nearly a dozen parrots, parrotlets, and lorikeets also known to be geophagas ("clay-eaters"). Sulphur-crested Cockatoos also have been known to engage in geophagy to detoxify their food.
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