Usage examples (30)

• He lives chiefly on seeds, though, like other granivorous birds, he feeds his young with grubs and small insects.
• I will leave the granivorous birds to speak of another class, equally hardy, but of habits more like those of the Woodpecker.
• Evidence of disarray amongst granivorous bird assemblages in the savannas of northern Australia, a region of sparse human settlement.
• Thirty-five to forty species of granivorous birds, among which we occasionally find in winter that rare Arctic bird, the Evening Grosbeak.