Are prey remains accurate indicators of chick diet? A comparison of diet quantification techniques for Black Oystercatchers

Wader Study ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian H. Robinson ◽  
Heather A. Colett ◽  
Laura M. Phillips ◽  
Abby N. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Prey Remains ◽  
Chick Diet

MACRO-ANALYSIS OF PREY REMAINS FROM MARTIAL EAGLE NESTS IN THE CAPE PROVINCE

Ostrich ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Boshoff ◽  
N. G. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Prey Remains

scholarly journals Further Studies on the Value of Desmodium Meal in the Baby Chick Diet

1950 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.L. Squibb ◽  
M.K. Wyld
Keyword(s):  
Chick Diet

Cyprinid prey remains in otter Lutra lutra faeces: some words of caution

1998 ◽  
Vol 245 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. N. Carss ◽  
K. C. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Lutra Lutra ◽  
Prey Remains

Raptor Prey Remains

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Drewitt
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Ecology ◽  
Prey Species ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Common ◽  
Prey Remains ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Prey Populations

Are you curious about the remains of an animal you have found? This compilation of the most likely found body parts of animals eaten by raptors will help you identify your discovery. Including over 100 species of bird and mammal prey of raptors such as sparrowhawks, peregrines and hen harriers, this photographic guide highlights the common feathers, fur and other body parts found at raptor nests, roosts, plucking posts and other opportunistic spots. Discovering what raptors eat is an important part of confirming their feeding ecology and how this might change over time, vary on a local level or in response to changing prey populations, as well as dispelling myths and assumptions about what certain raptor species eat. Diet studies are vital for the conservation of raptor species; the more we know about what they need for survival the more we can predict and plan long-term for the protection and survival of raptors that may be vulnerable and in decline. This is the first book to show in detail the actual parts of a bird, mammal or other animal that you are likely to find in a garden, woodland or beneath a raptor roost. As more people take an interest in raptors and watch species such as peregrines via webcams and through watch groups, there is greater opportunity for finding prey remains. This book provides the first and most important step in identifying a prey species.

scholarly journals Facts from Faeces: Prey Remains in Wolf, Canis lupus, Faeces Revise Occurrence Records for Mammals of British Columbia's Coastal Archipelago

2005 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. H. Price ◽  
Chris T. Darimont ◽  
Neville N. Winchester ◽  
Paul C. Paquet
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Canis Lupus ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Species Occurrence ◽  
Ecological Information ◽  
Terrestrial Predator ◽  
Prey Remains ◽  
Coastal British Columbia ◽  
Occurrence Records

Archipelagos often harbour taxa that are endemic and vulnerable to disturbance. Conservation planning and research for these areas depend fundamentally on accurate and current taxonomic inventories. Although basic ecological information is in its infancy, the temperate rainforest islands of coastal British Columbia are undergoing rapid human-caused modification, particularly logging. We report herein new mammal records for these islands as determined by prey remains in the faeces of Wolves (Canis lupus), the area’s apex mammalian terrestrial predator. Of particular interest is our detection of Marten (Martes americana) on islands previously inventoried and island occupancy by Moose (Alces alces), which have apparently migrated recently to coastal British Columbia. Remains in faeces provided valuable new species occurrence information, but more extensive and focused inventories are required to generate predictions of island occupancy by mammals based on biotic and abiotic landscape features.

Skin and bone: observations of dingo scavenging during a chronic food shortage

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Canis Lupus ◽  
Bos Taurus ◽  
Food Shortage ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Macropus Rufus ◽  
Prey Remains

Dingo (Canis lupus dingo and hybrids) diet studies primarily rely on analyses of prey remains found in stomachs or scats (i.e. faeces). However, dingoes are also scavengers, and doubt may remain as to whether or not a given item found in a stomach/scat was killed or scavenged. This paper briefly reports some incidental observations of dingoes scavenging cattle (Bos taurus), red kangaroos (Macropus rufus), wedge-tailed eagles (Aquila audax), and other dingo carcasses during a chronic food shortage. This confirms that diet studies may not be evidence for predation, and that dietary items collected during a discrete period may not actually reflect the period when the item died.

Prey remains of brown skua is evidence of the long-term decline in burrow occupancy of blue petrels and thin-billed prions at Mayes Island, Kerguelen

Polar Biology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 1873-1879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Pacoureau ◽  
Elie Gaget ◽  
Karine Delord ◽  
Christophe Barbraud
Keyword(s):  
Brown Skua ◽  
Prey Remains
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