Which birds can drink like horses by immersing their bills in water and sucking it up
Doves and pigeons can do this. Hummingbirds feed on nectar.
Very few birds can suck; next time you watch birds drinking, notice how most birds have to tilt back their head to allow the water to flow down their throats, whereas doves can just leave their bill in the water and suck up the water.
Pigeon drinks by inserting bill into water; appears to suck up a continuous draught of liquid. Especially in n. Pacific Coast region, drinks water and may ingest minerals encrusted on pebbles and soil at natural and artificially created mineral deposits ("mineral springs"). Will peck at salt licks on grazing range.
Hummingbirds, have a largely liquid diet. But, they do enjoy "playing" in the water. Hummingbirds, with their largely liquid diet of nectar, normally face a problem of flooding rather than dehydration. Birds of and areas may either go very long periods without drinking or never drink at all. They manage this in part by manufacturing water, as we all do, in the process of "burning" their food (cellular respiration). They also obtain water from their, food (even dry seeds contain some), and they conserve water.
Get your facts straight girls !!
The hummingbird
pelicans?
Doves belong to the Columbidae family which has about 300 species and are found worldwide. The characteristic quality of these gregarious birds is that they drink like horses by immersing their bills in the water and sucking it up, while most birds have to raise their heads so that the water can trickle down from the bills.
PD says Pigeons. Dragon is right. And Hummingbirds DO NOT DRINK WATER - they play in it.
Dragon Empress is right, it's doves and pigeons. Not hummingbirds.
Doves and most of the finches from australia.
E.g. Zebra finches and double barred finches
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