More About Milo. Birdscope, Volume 9, Number 1. You probably know red milo as the round, reddish bird seed being studied as part of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Seed Preference Test. Let's take a closer look.
Red milo is another name for grain sorghum.
It's one of many varieties of Sorghum vulgare , a plant that's closely related to corn. In fact, grain sorghum looks a lot like Indian corn, except the seeds grow in a loosely branched cluster, not lined up on an ear. Nutritionally, milo and corn are very similar. Milo is native to Africa, and it's an important food crop there and in parts of Asia. Farmers began growing milo in the United States in the last century, mostly as a stock and poultry feed.