Choose the correct option from the brackets:

(iii) Pollination by birds. (ornithophily, entomophily, hydrophily, anemophily)

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Solution

Ornithophily

Ornithophily refers to the pollination by birds.

It is the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of one flower to the stigma of the same or another flower of the same species through birds.

Example - Silk cotton and Bottlebrush.

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