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Home ยป Provisioning with cereal grain depresses the body condition of insectivorous Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella nestlings
Provisioning with cereal grain depresses the body condition of insectivorous Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella nestlings
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Authors: | Douglas, DJT, Moreby, SJ, Benton, TG |
Journal: | Bird Study |
Volume: | 59 |
Issue: | 1 |
Date Published: | 2011 |
ISBN Number: | 0006-3657 |
Keywords: | Emberiza, Emberiza citrinella, Emberiza godlewskii, Emberizidae |
Abstract: | Capsule The body condition of nestling Yellowhammers was negatively correlated with the amount of cereal grain in the diet. This supports the hypothesis that cereal grain is an inferior nestling food relative to invertebrates. Cereal grain is frequently provisioned to nestlings in a range of bunting species breeding on farmland, suggesting that invertebrates may be limiting in these habitats.Capsule The body condition of nestling Yellowhammers was negatively correlated with the amount of cereal grain in the diet. This supports the hypothesis that cereal grain is an inferior nestling food relative to invertebrates. Cereal grain is frequently provisioned to nestlings in a range of bunting species breeding on farmland, suggesting that invertebrates may be limiting in these habitats. |
URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2011.636797 |
Short Title: | Bird Study |
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