Sentence examples for diet birds from inspiring English sources

Common ravens nesting near sources of human garbage included a higher percentage of food waste in their diet, birds nesting near roads consumed more road-killed vertebrates, and those nesting far from these sources of food ate more arthropods and plant material.

Thus, under our low-quality diet, birds received each day 30 g of commercial chick starter crumb, a grain-based diet containing 18.9% protein of vegetable origin.

Under the high-quality diet, birds received each day 20 g of chick crumb plus 10 g of Orlux, a mixture of dried insects and crustaceans, ant eggs and ant larvae (29% protein), and one-eighth of an apple.

We found main effects of current diet (birds ate fewer toxic prey when living on a high-quality diet), and of brood size treatment (birds raised in large broods ate more toxic prey than their siblings raised in small broods).

We found an effect of diet, with birds consuming more toxic prey while on the low-quality diet, and also of developmental history, with birds from the high-competition brood size treatment eating more toxic prey than their low-competition siblings.

Mites or nematodes and perhaps fungi might feed on them, he said, and they would form part of the diet of birds, though probably an insignificant one in the northeastern United States.

But with elk guts to supplement their diet, more birds should be able to survive.

The results suggested that lead inclusion in diet of birds had negative effects on the performance while propolis supplements improved the growth, nutrient utilization and carcass yield.

This diet provided birds with a variety of items to choose from while they were becoming independent.

For the first 10 days of the trial, the appropriate diet (10 birds for each of the three diets) was given.

The findings from this study suggest there are beneficial effects of feeding high amino acid diets to birds in response to external stresses, such as post-hatch fasting and subclinical NE.