High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Amazonian Birds live in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest and river basin, home to one out of every ten known species. Over 1,300 of these species are types of birds which accounts for one-third of all bird species in the world. The diets of rainforest birds greatly differ between species, although, nuts, fruits and leaves are a common food for many birds in the Amazon. Birds migrate to the Amazon Rainforest from the North or South. Amazon birds are threatened by deforestation since they primarily reside in the treetops. At its current rate of destruction from deforestation, the rainforest will be gone in forty years. Human encroachment also negatively affects the habitat of many Amazonian birds. The production of agriculture and road clearings limits the areas that birds are able to reside in the rainforest. Birds in the Amazon are distinguished by which layer of the rainforest they reside in. Each layer or community has unique...