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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To assess the impact of habitat fragmentation on tropical avian communities, we sampled lowland forest birds on six land-bridge islands and ...

Shubhadeep Choudhury Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 7 A total of 482 insectivorous birds useful in the predation of different crop pests have been identified under the All India Network ...

A new study is one of the first to find evidence for a causal link between the decline of insectivorous birds, the decline of emergent aquatic insects, and poor water quality. A new study is one of ...

Three lines of evidence suggest that West Indian Anolis lizards and insectivorous birds compete for their arthropod prey: (1) Extensive diet overlaps exist between anoles and insectivorous birds; (2) ...

Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tons of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. The research highlights the important role birds ...

The plant kingdom is not just as a benign world, where life is able to thrive without having to resort to the base instincts found in many animals, such as killing for survival. There is an ...

While most long-fingered bats eat only insects, they may all be instinctively able to also catch fish, according to a study published December 14, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ostaizka ...

The world's insectivorous birds consume annually 400 to 500 million tons of prey and thereby use as much energy as the megacity New York. This is demonstrated by zoologists in the journal The Science ...