Çağan Şekercioğlu Instagram – #Birds provide critical services for ecosystems and humanity, such as eating agricultural pests, scavenging carcasses, pollinating plants and dispersing their seeds. This Guianan cock-of-the-rock (#Rupicola rupicola) I photographed in the #Amazon #rainforest of #Brazil is feeding on the fruits of the “health food” #açaí palm, whose seeds the #bird then disperses to other locations by flying away and defecating.  To learn about birds’ ecological importance, why a quarter of the 11,000 species are in trouble and what we can do to help them, visit our #Biodiversity & Conservation #Ecology Lab page http://bioweb.biology.utah.edu/sekercioglu & read our book #WhyBirdsMatter http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo23996771.html Reposted from @natgeotvturkiye Kuşlar, ekosistemler ve insanlık için kritik birçok hizmette bulunur. Tarım zararlılarını yer, leşleri temizler, çiçekleri tozlaştırır ve Çağan Şekercioğlu’nun Brezilya’nın Amazon yağmur ormanında görüntülediği bu Guyana kaya horozu gibi yedikleri meyvelerin tohumlarını başka bölgelere yayarlar. Roraima