An assessment of the diet of nestling stonechats saxicola torquata using compositional analysis: Coleoptera (beetles), hymenoptera (sawflies, ichneumon flies, bees, wasps and ants), terrestrial larvae (moth, sawfly and beetle) and arachnida (spiders and harvestmen) accounted for 81% of stonechat nestling diet

Bird Study

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-145

  Cummins, Sinéad ^a   O’halloran, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Saxicola

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIET; INVERTEBRATE; NESTLING;

CORK HARBOUR; IRELAND;

APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; AVES; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMON; ICHNEUMONIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPILIONES; SAXICOLA; SAXICOLA TORQUATA; SYMPHYTA; VERTEBRATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036074589     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650209461258     Document Type: Article

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