Dietary specialization on high protein seeds by adult and nestling serins

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-40

  Valera, Francisco ^a   Wagner, Richard H ^b   Romero Pujante, Marilo ^b   Gutiérrez, Jose E ^c   Rey, Pedro J ^d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Fundación Gypaetus   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agrosystem; Diet specialization; Food availability; Granivory; Protein content; Serinus serinus

Indexed keywords

AVES; DIPLOTAXIS; DIPLOTAXIS VIRGATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SERINUS SERINUS;

EID: 13844275718     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7599     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. BEECHER, N. A., R. J. JOHNSON, J. R. BRANDLE, R. M. CASE, AND L. J. YOUNG. 2002. Agroecology of birds in organic and nonorganic farmland. Conservation Biology 16: 1620-1631.
2. BENKMAN, C. W. 1987. Food profitability and the foraging ecology of crossbills. Ecological Monographs 57:251-257.
3. BORRAS, A., T. CABRERA, J. CABRERA, AND J. C. SENAR. 2003. The diet of the Citril Finch (Serinus citrinella) in the Pyrenees and the role of Pinus seeds as a key resource. Journal für Ornithologie 144:345-353.
4. CHANEY, S. G., AND M. R. KARE. 1966. Emesis in birds. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 149:938-943.
5. CRAMP, S., AND C. M. PERRINS [EDS.]. 1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East & North Africa. Vol. VIII. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
6. DÍAZ, M. 1989. Eficacia de un emético (apomorfina) para el estudio de las dietas de Paseriformes granívoros. Ardeola 36:185-191.
7. DÍAZ, M. 1990. Interspecific patterns of seed selection among granivorous passerines: effects of seed size, seed nutritive value and bird morphology. Ibis 132:467-476.
8. DÍAZ, M. 1994. Variability in seed size selection by granivorous passerines: effects of bird size, bird size variability, and ecological plasticity. Oecologia 99:1-6.
9. DÍAZ. M. 1996. Food choice by seed-eating birds in relation to seed chemistry. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 113:239-246.
10. DONALD, P. F., R. E. GREEN, AND M. F. HEATH. 2001. Agricultural intensification and the collapse of Europe's farmland bird populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 268:25-29.
11. EARLE, F. R., AND Q. JONES. 1962. Analyses of seed samples from 113 plant families. Economic Botany 16:221-250.
12. EYBERT, M. C., AND P. CONSTANT. 1998. Diet of nestling Linnets (Acanthis cannabina L.). Journal für Ornithologie 139:277-286.
13. FULLER, R. J. 2000. Relationships between recent changes in lowland british agriculture and farmland bird populations: an overview, p. 5-16. In N. J. Aebischer, A. D. Evans, P. V. Grice, and J. A. Vickery [EDS.], Ecology and conservation of low-land farmland birds. British Ornithologists' Union, Tring, UK.
14. GLÜCK, E. 1980. Ernährung und Nahrungsstrategie des Stieglitzes Carduelis carduelis L. Ökologie der Vögel 2:43-91.
15. GLÜCK, E. 1985. Seed preference and energy intake of Goldfinches Carduelis carduelis in the breeding season. Ibis 127:421-429.
16. GRANT, P. R. 1986. Ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
17. GREEN, R. E., M. R. W. RANDS, AND S. J. MOREBY. 1987. Species differences in diet and the development of seed digestion in partridge chicks Perdix perdix and Alectoris rufa. Ibis 129:511-514.
18. HARPER, E. J., AND C. L. TURNER. 2000. Nutrition and energetics of the Canary (Serinus canarius). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B 126:271-281.
19. JORDANO, P. 1988. Diet, fruit choice and variation in body condition of frugivorous warblers in Mediterranean scrubland. Ardea 76:193-209.
20. JORDANO, P. 2000. Fruits and frugivory, p. 125-166. In M. Fenner [ED.], Seeds. The ecology of regeneration in plant communities. CAB International,Wallingford, Oxon, UK.
21. JORDANO, P., AND C. M. HERRERA. 1981. The frugivorous diet of Blackcap populations Sylvia atricapilla wintering in southern Spain. Ibis 123:502-507.
22. KARASOV, W. H. 1990. Digestion in birds: chemical and physiological determinants and ecological implications. Studies in Avian Biology 13:391-415.
23. LEVEY, D. J., A. R. PLACE, P. J. REY, AND C. M. DEL Rio. 1999. An experimental test of dietary enzyme modulation in pine warblers Dendroica pinus. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72:576-587.
24. MOORCROFT, D. 2000. The causes of decline in the Linnet Carduelis cannabina within the agricultural landscape. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford, Oxford.
25. MOORCROFT, D., R. B. BRADBURY, AND J. D. WILSON. 1997. The diet of nestling Linnets Carduelis cannabina before and after agricultural intensification, p. 969-972. In Brighton Crop Protection Conference-Weeds 1997. British Crop Protection Council, Farnham, UK.
26. NEWTON, I. 1967. The adaptative radiation and feeding ecology of some British finches. Ibis 109:33-98.
27. NEWTON, I. 1972. Finches. Collins, London, UK.
28. PASTOR, M., J. MORALES-TORRES, AND L. GARCÍA-TORRES. 1984. Non-tillage in olive (Olea europaea): effects on yield, herbicide uses and weed flora evolution, p. 151-159. Proceedings of the EWRS 3rd Symposium on Weed Problems in the Mediterranean Area.
29. PINOWSKA, B. 1975. Food of female House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in relation to stages of nesting cycle. Polish Ecological Studies 1:211-225.
30. POULIN, B., G. LEFEBVRE, AND R. MCNEIL. 1992. Tropical avian phenology in relation to abundance and exploitation of food resources. Ecology 73:2295-2309.
31. PRICE, T. 1987. Diet variation in a population of Darwin's finches. Ecology 68:1015-1028.
32. PULLIAINEN, E. 1971. Winter nutrition of crossbills (Loxia curvirostra and L. leucoptera) in northeastern lapland in 1969. Annales Zoologici Fennici 8:326-329.
33. PULLIAINEN, E. 1972. Summer nutrition of crossbills (Loxia pytyopsittacus, L. curvirostra and L. leucoptera) in northeastern lapland in 1971. Annales Zoologici Fennici 9:28-31.
34. PYKE, G. H., H. R. PULLIAM, AND E. L. CHARNOV. 1977. Optimal foraging: a selective review of theory and tests. Quarterly Review of Biology 52:137-154.
35. REY, P. J., AND F. VALERA. 1999. Diet plasticity in Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla): the ability to overcome nutritional constraints imposed by agricultural intensification. Ecoscience 6:429-438.
36. ROSENBERG, K. V., AND R. J. COOPER. 1990. Approaches to an avian diet analysis. Studies in Avian Biology 13:80-90.
37. ROTENBERRY, J. T. 1980. Dietary relationships among shrubsteppe passerine birds: competition or opportunism in a variable environment? Ecological Monographs 50:93-110.
38. STATSOFT, INC. 2001. STATISTICA for Windows. Version 6.0. StatSoft, Inc., Tulsa, OK.
39. STEPHENS, D. W., AND J. R. KREBS. 1986. Foraging theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
40. VALERA, F. 1992. Relaciones entre el estrato herbáceo de un agroecosistema mediterráneo - el olivar- y la ornitofauna granívora nidificante. Ph.D. dissertation, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
41. VALERA, F., J. E. GUTIÉRREZ, AND R. BARRIOS. 1997a. Effectiveness, biases, and mortality in the use of an emetic to determine the diet of granivorous passerines. Condor 99:765-772.
42. VALERA, F., P. REY, A. M. SÁNCHEZ-LAFUENTE, AND J. ALCÁNTARA. 1997b. Efecto de los sistemas de laboreo sobre las aves, p. 225-242. In L. García-Torres and P. González [EDS.], Agricultura de Conservación. Fundamentos agronómicos, medioambientales y económicos. AELC/SV, Córdoba, Spain.
43. VALERA, F., P. REY, A. M. SÁNCHEZ-LAFUENTE, AND J. ALCÁNTARA. 1999. El uso de herbicidas y la conservación del medio ambiente: efectos sobre la flora y la fauna, p. 23-36. In C. Fernández-Quintanilla, M. Garrido, and C. Zaragoza [EDS.], Control integrado de las malas hierbas. Phytoma-España,Valencia, Spain.
44. WARD, P. 1965. Feeding ecology of the Black-faced Dioch Quelea quelea in Nigeria. Ibis 107:173-214.
45. WHELAN, C. J., J. S. BROWN, K. A. SCHMIDT, B. B. STEELE, AND M. F. WILLSON. 2000. Linking consumer-resource theory and digestive physiology: application to diet shift. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2:911-934.
46. WHITE, S. C. 1974. Ecological aspects of growth and nutrition in tropical fruit-eating birds. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
47. WIENS, J. A., AND R. F. JOHNSTON. 1977. Adaptive correlates of granivory in birds, p. 301-340. In J. Pinowski and S. C. Kendeigh [EDS.], Granivorous birds in ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.