Sentence examples for ground foraging from inspiring English sources

Insectivores and foliage foraging species contributed to increasing overall species number, while ground foraging species negatively affected to the overall avian diversity of a community.

While pitfall traps are efficient to measure ground foraging ants, they are less effective at capturing litter dwelling (hypogaeic) ant species.

The infestation prevalence of ticks infected with rickettsial organisms was four times higher among ground foraging birds than among other bird species, but the two groups were equally competent in transmitting Rickettsia species.

Increased prey accessibility and avoidance of predation risk are the two reasons for which ground foraging insectivorous birds appear to prefer foraging in sparse vegetation, despite higher food abundance in dense vegetation.

Quinn et al. [ 6] examined the toxicological effects of 2A-DNT in the ground foraging bird species, Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), and found that it was acutely toxic only at high doses (LD50 = 1167 mg/kg).

Wildlife bird species represent important potential receptors of MCs, especially ground foraging birds that may inadvertently consume these chemicals when ingesting grit or soils to assist with digestion [ 5].

The bulls received a daily diet of 30 k of ground forage grass (Napier grass) and 4 k of maintenance feed in addition to Estrela grass, which was the natural paddock hay, and water ad libitum.

The camera, developed by the National Institute for Polar Research in Tokyo, is removed when the albatross returns to its breeding ground after foraging trips.

On over 200 occasions wood turtles were observed to stomp the ground while foraging, and this behavior often elicited emergence of earthworms that were pursued and eaten.

It requires open, bare ground to forage for seeds and thus avoids dense forested areas (Skutch 1956).

They typically hunt small rodents, rabbits and ground-foraging birds.