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Potential of pest regulation by insectivorous birds in Mediterranean woody crops [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Regulation of agricultural pests managing their natural enemies represents an alternative to chemical pesticides. We assessed the potential of insectivorous birds as pest regulators in woody crops located in central Spain.
JOSÉ M Rey Benayas +2 more
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Attraction to Smelly Food in Birds: Insectivorous Birds Discriminate between the Pheromones of Their Prey and Those of Non-Prey Insects [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Natural selection has favored the evolution of different capabilities that allow animals to obtain food—e.g., the development of senses for improving prey/food detection.
Luisa Amo, Irène Saavedra
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Insectivorous birds eavesdrop on the pheromones of their prey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Chemical cues play a fundamental role in mate attraction and mate choice. Lepidopteran females, such as the winter moth (Operophtera brumata), emit pheromones to attract males in the reproductive period.
Irene Saavedra, Luisa Amo
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A larval aggregation pheromone as foraging cue for insectivorous birds [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2021 Abstract Although birds have traditionally been considered anosmic, increasing evidence indicates that olfaction plays an important role in the foraging behaviours of insectivorous birds. Recent studies have shown that birds can exploit herbivore-induced plant volatiles and sexual pheromones of adult insects to locate their prey. Many
Pablo Díaz-Siefer +2 more
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The wastewater micropollutant carbamazepine in insectivorous birds-an exposure estimate. [PDF]
Anal Bioanal Chem, 2022 AbstractInsects with aquatic life stages can transfer sediment and water pollutants to terrestrial ecosystems, which has been described for metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and polychlorinated chemicals. However, knowledge of the transfer of aquatic micropollutants released by wastewater treatment plants is scarce despite some preliminary studies on ...
Wicht AJ +4 more
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A novel cellular structure in the retina of insectivorous birds. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractThe keen visual systems of birds have been relatively well-studied. The foundations of avian vision rest on their cone and rod photoreceptors. Most birds use four cone photoreceptor types for color vision, a fifth cone for achromatic tasks, and a rod for dim-light vision.
Tyrrell LP +6 more
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Migrating hoverflies as potential food source for co-migrating insectivorous birds [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceMost migrating birds must replenish energy reserves during migration. Food availability significantly influences migratory routes and can even force migrants to detour, but still little is known about potential co-migration between insectivorous birds ...
Antonín Hlaváček +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Epigraph: “The house is burning. We do not need a thermometer. We need a fire hose.” (P. 102, Janzen and Hallwachs, 2019). Insectivorous birds are declining widely, and for diverse reasons.
Thomas W Sherry, Sherry Thomas W
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Insectivorous birds can see and smell systemically herbivore‐induced pines [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Several studies have shown that insectivorous birds are attracted to herbivore‐damaged trees even when they cannot see or smell the actual herbivores or their feces.
Elina Mäntylä +2 more
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Disappearance of insectivorous birds from tropical forest fragments [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002 Determining the impact of forest disturbance and fragmentation on tropical biotas is a central goal of conservation biology. Among tropical forest birds, understory insectivores are particularly sensitive to habitat disturbance and fragmentation, despite their relatively small sizes and freedom from hunting pressure. Why these birds are especially
Cagan H Sekercioglu +2 more
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