Bamboo offers many important resources to animals, including food (seeds, shoots, leaves, insects, etc.), and cover from enemies. There are two main properties that the bamboo provides that attract birds. Firstly, the shoots and leaves provide birds with good nesting material, while the plants themselves are an excellent source of cover, protecting the birds from predators and the weather elements. When you plant bamboo you enhance your local biodiversity.
As you may be aware the well-being of humans is dependent on the sustainability of their environment…
Did you know that Bamboo’s ability to restore degraded land is a particularly important ecosystem service for forests? Its long underground root systems mean that bamboos can bind soil, prevent water run-off and survive even when the biomass above ground is destroyed by fire.
Tropical Birds Slideshow
More photos of bamboo and how it enhances biodiversity in especially fauna like birds and reptiles (snakes). Flickr photo album with wildlife birds in bamboo. Also you can check the iNaturalist profile to see all the identified species of the flora and fauna at Permatree Wildlife Conservation in Ecuador.
This region is one of the very few last remaining MEGA biodiversity hot spots of the planet earth because of its remote location and also its a natural wildlife corridor from the great amazon basin to the Andes Mountains range for the remaining wildlife.
Identified Wildlife on Bamboo at Permatree in Ecuador
Chestnut-eared araçari (Pteroglossus castanotis) Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis) Silver-beaked tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) Blue-necked tanager (Tangara cyanicollis) Lined antshrike (Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus) Amazon Puffing Snake (Spilotes sulphureus) Blue-gray Tanager (Thraupis episcopus) Bat falcon (Falco rufigularis) Tachyphonus rufus (White-lined tanager) Ruddy ground dove (Columbina talpacoti) Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) Crested oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) Glittering-throated Emerald (Amazilia fimbriata) Ochre-lored flatbill (Tolmomyias flaviventris) Blue-headed Parrot (Pionus menstruus) Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) Bran-colored Flycatcher (Myiophobus fasciatus) Turdus ignobilis (Black-billed thrush) Melaniparus niger (Southern black tit) Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum) Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) Amazonian Grey Saltator (Saltator coerulescens) Spotted Tanager (Tangara punctata) Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) Blue-necked tanager (Tangara cyanicollis) Odontorchilus cinereus (Tooth-billed wren) Tanagers and Allies (Family Thraupidae) Glittering-throated Emerald (Amazilia fimbriata) Yellow-browed Sparrow (Ammodramus aurifrons) Cinnamon Becard (Pachyramphus cinnamomeus) Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana) Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) Green-and-gold tanager (Tangara schrankii) Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis) Barred Antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus) Chestnut-eared araçari (Pteroglossus castanotis)