RE: Aviary (birds birds)
05-11-2015, 03:29 AM
The naturalist approach is bomb diggity, ecology major here to verify
A boyfriend of mine (who currently works in forestry looking at biological control of key pest species) noticed gulls (species uncertain, probably Dominican; he's going to try ID them properly next time he's at the site) eating Huhu beetles that are attracted to floodlights at the processing station for a pine plantation. Huhus are a big, robust, native beetle whose larvae live in rotting wood.
Gulls are not known for selectively preying on these beetles, so this could be a behavioural response to living in an biospherically scant habitat like an artificial pine forest! He's going to submit the observation to an ornithological journal, in case some gull-loving graduate down the track decides to put together a research proposal for studying how gull feeding patterns vary over space and time or what have you, and needs stuff in scientific journals to show that there's cool things up worth studying.
A boyfriend of mine (who currently works in forestry looking at biological control of key pest species) noticed gulls (species uncertain, probably Dominican; he's going to try ID them properly next time he's at the site) eating Huhu beetles that are attracted to floodlights at the processing station for a pine plantation. Huhus are a big, robust, native beetle whose larvae live in rotting wood.
Gulls are not known for selectively preying on these beetles, so this could be a behavioural response to living in an biospherically scant habitat like an artificial pine forest! He's going to submit the observation to an ornithological journal, in case some gull-loving graduate down the track decides to put together a research proposal for studying how gull feeding patterns vary over space and time or what have you, and needs stuff in scientific journals to show that there's cool things up worth studying.
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow