Aerial surveillance by a generalist seed predator: food resource tracking by Meyer's parrot<i>Poicephalus meyeri</i>in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

S. Boyes, Rutledge; R. Perrin, Michael

doi:10.1017/s0266467410000210

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Aerial surveillance by a generalist seed predator: food resource tracking by Meyer's parrotPoicephalus meyeriin the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Published in Journal of Tropical Ecology • May 28, 2010

Authors:

Rutledge S. Boyes

Michael R. Perrin

Abstract

Abstract: As a proven food resource generalist, Meyer's parrot ( Poicephalus meyeri ) was expected to track the availability of all significant food resources in its diet over time. Here we recorded all feeding activity during 366 standardized road transects for correlation with an index of relative...

Subject

Generalist and specialist species

Foraging

Abundance (ecology)

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