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Parrots are
(a)Herbivores
(b)Frugivores
(c)Sanguivores
(d)Detritivores

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Hint: A diet including nuts, flowers, berries, buds, seeds are consumed by most parrots. Their favorite food is seeds. They have powerful jaws that allow them to snap open nutshells to get to the inner seed.

Complete answer:
-According to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, parrots are members of the order Psittaciformes, which comprises more than 350 bird species, including parakeets, macaws, cockatiels, and cockatoos.
-A frugivore is an animal that grows primarily on raw fruits, fruit-like vegetables, roots, shoots, nuts, and seeds.
-By cutting through or removing the flesh, husk, or hull of preferred fruits, frugivorous birds often have specialized bills to help them consume fruit more effectively.
-Frugivorous birds mainly consume fruit and can have a widely varying diet of various kinds of fruit.
-There are so many different species in the parrot order, with parrot sizes varying widely. Parrots can vary in size from around 8.7 to 100 centimeters (3.5 to 40 inches) and, on average, weigh 2.25 to 56 ounces (64 g to 1.6 kg).
-The heaviest parrot breed in the world is the kakapo, which can weigh up to 9 lbs. (Kg 4).
-The smallest parrot is the buff-faced pygmy parrot, which is just around 8 cm (3 inches) tall and just 10 g (0.4 ounces) in weight.
So the correct answer is ‘Frugivores’.

Note: -Any organism that eats the blood of another organism living or once living. In reality, a vampire. Any organism that survives by ingesting fresh blood is a sanguivore.
-Detritivores are heterotrophs that consume detritus (decomposing pieces of plants and animals as well as feces) to obtain nutrients.