Hawks, owls, and other birds of prey hunt for smaller birs and mammals. The tropical rainforests cover a wide band around the equator. More kinds of birds live in the rainforests than in any other place, because there are so many plants for them to eat. The different layers of the rainforest provide different opportunities for different kinds of bird to feed. Soaring high above the rainforest canopy are hawks and eagles, swooping down to seize birds or small mammals from the forest's top branches.
Many birds live in the upper canopy, like toucans, hummingbirds and parrots.
Lower down, there is less light, and flycatchers, tits and babblers hunt for insects. On the gloomy forest floor live jungle fowl, pheasants, bower birds and other species, scratching for food among the dead leaves. Birds of the Grasslands Grassland birds often eat the seeds of grasses and other plants. Weaver birds, waxbills and finches are in this group. Other birds eat the insects which live in grasslands, and these include bee-eaters and oxpeckers.