Some time ago I go hold of a list. It is welcoming to get hold of such a page and a precious guide on popular plants that our garden birds visit. Thought I could from then on depend on the information contained in that list to quote the names of trees and make references when I write about habits of birds. I kept it until one day I was ready to refer to it for assistance.  Sorry, some details on the trees listed may be pertinent but I would say more apt as a list of flowering plants that birds may visit. This list was prepared for another exercise - to decorate a home garden to attract birds. For example, some obvious flowering tree like Heliconias popularly visited by birds were omitted. Then there are also mention of palm trees with flowers or seeds that I have not seen patronized by birds.

I think for one would need a guide where we could use in the field and make records with. To think that too few of us are backyard Birders and less concerned with birds in our garden. So with my experiences and observation I made in the field, I now slowly compiling a list which I myself feels proud. I will keep adding new plants as I get the details. You could help me if there are plants which you have come across and that I missed out.

Coming back to fruiting trees on this page. I touch on a couple of tropical fruits trees found in our garden that birds from the garden and open Park would visit. But you would agree with me that there far more frugivorous Birds in the wild. The fruits that they select? Unusual and sometimes minute, on trees that we can hardly get ourselves associated with. Believe me some fruits are so tiny, inconspicuous that I made special efforts to have them recorded. Needless to say, far from our imagination of Papayas as bird food, these other the bird food are not meant for human consumption.

I have put up this page in support of my other pages relating to bird life. Yes, these are the fruiting trees growing in the wild and important to Bird Life. The trees themselves, not interesting, most of them easy to spot and identify. Then, these trees are unlikely to be planted but sprouted up by themselves from seeds scattered by birds. The fruits from the trees are likely to be seasonal. There is little or insufficient outstanding on its characteristic of these bird food. The trees themselves, many of them "weeds" do not attract gardeners to select them as ornamental plants. The forest are full of them, and should be of special interest to birders.

Lastly, birds come to some trees for their seeds rather than flowers or fruits.