Forested wetlands in a protected area and the adjacent working landscape provide complementary biodiversity value based on breeding birds: A case study from Nova Scotia, Canada by John Brazner, Jake Walker, Frances Mackinnon, Rob Cameron

“…The higher abundance of long-distance migrants and insectivores at inside sites suggests PAs are providing critical additional support to key guilds that are in steep decline.…”
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Selective logging shows no impact on the dietary breadth of a generalist bat species: The fawn leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros cervinus) by Hemprich-Bennett, David R., Kemp, Victoria A., Blackman, Joshua, Lewis, Owen T., Struebig, Matthew J., Henry Bernard, Kratina, Pavel, Rossiter, Stephen J., Clare, Elizabeth L.

“…We analysed the diet of the insectivorous fawn leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros cervinus across a forest disturbance gradient in Borneo, using a dataset of ecological interactions from an unprecedented number of bat-derived faecal samples. …”
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Depauperate avifauna in tropical peat swamp forests following logging and conversion to oil palm agriculture: evidence from mist-netting data by Ainil Hawa, Badrul Azhar, Mohd Top, Marina, Zubaid, Akbar

“…We found that the populations of frugivores, insectivores, and omnivores were significantly higher in the peat swamp forest, whereas there was no significant difference in the granivores between the two sites. …”
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Effect of Farming and Rainfall on the Species Diversity, Population Density and Community Structure of Birds Breeding in the Kalahari Woodland, NE Namibia by G. Kopij

“…Two other feeding guilds, insectivores and frugivores, comprised together more than 50% in both years. …”
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Wintering of Leaf Warblers (Phylloscopus Boie, 1826) in Gangajalghati: First Photographic Evidence of Four Species from Northern Bankura, West Bengal, India by Ananya Nayak

“…Leaf warblers are small insectivorous passerine birds that belong to the genus Phyl-loscopus(Boie, 1826) and exhibit great similarity in plumage and morphology. …”
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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Galapagos birds: Inference of risk factors associated with diet. by Juan D Mosquera, Carlos A Valle, Ainoa Nieto-Claudin, Birgit Fessl, Gregory A Lewbart, Diane Deresienski, Leïla Bouazzi, Sonia Zapata, Isabelle Villena, Marie-Lazarine Poulle

“…It decreased from occasional carnivores (63.43%) to granivores-insectivores (26.22%), and strict piscivores (14.62%). …”
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Habitat heterogeneity on feeding habit of two sympatric and congeneric characidae fishes in two tropical reservoirs by Vanessa G. Lopes, Jorge L. Nessimian, Elidiomar R. Da-Silva, José Henrique C. Gomes, Ana Carolina I. M. Dias, Leonardo C. Souza, Christina W.C. Branco

“…This study highlighted the insectivorous feeding habit of Astyanax species and revealed different feeding strategies between sympatric fishes despite high niche overlap in both environments. …”
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Coevolutionary maintenance of forked tails and song in hirundines (Aves: Hirundininae) by Masaru Hasegawa

“…Hirundines have similar ecology (e.g. aerial insectivores, social monogamy, and biparental provisioning), morphology (e.g. syrinx with nearly complete bronchial rings), and plumage ornamentation (i.e. a sexually selected forked tail), which provides a unique opportunity to examine the evolutionary associations between plumage ornamentation and song. …”
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Dynamics of the ecological structure of fauna birds in lake Baikal hollow (late XYII – early XXI centuries) by Mel’nikov Yuriy

“…Few species, ichthyophages and insectivorous, have reached high numbers in the new areas. …”
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Population density and structure of birds breeding in an urban habitat dominated by large baobabs (Adansonia digitata), Northern Namibia by G. Kopij

“…Granivores were by far the most numerous feeding guild, comprising 77.2% of all birds breeding, while the insectivores comprised only 11.8%. Birds nesting in/on buildings comprised 52.7%, those nesting on trees/shrubs – 42.0%. …”
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Avian assemblages in lowland and foothill agro-ecosystem in Lesotho by G. Kopij

“…Eighteen species bred in significantly different densities in lowlands and foothills. While insectivorous birds were more numerous in the lowland than foothill, the reverse was true with granivorous birds. …”
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Isolated Ficus trees and conservation in human-modified landscapes by Cottee-Jones, H

“…By studying the interactions between birds, plants, and people with isolated <em>Ficus</em> (Moraceae) trees in Assam, India, this thesis reports several important findings: 1) isolated <em>Ficus</em> trees are extraordinarily important to frugivorous bird communities that inhabit human-modified landscapes; 2) the frugivores visiting these isolated trees still sustained the majority of ecological function found in trees close to the forest edge; 3) isolated <em>Ficus</em> trees are also exceptionally important feeding sites for insectivorous birds in human-modified landscapes, compared to other trees; 4) <em>Ficus</em> trees are better restoration nuclei than other isolated trees; 5) although the sacred status of <em>Ficus</em> trees in Assam has a major influence on their abundance and distribution, faith-based values are insufficient in ensuring their conservation. …”

Complementarity between mist-netting and low-cost acoustic recorders to sample bats in Amazonian rainforests and savannahs by Carvalho, WD, Miguel, JD, da Silva Xavier, B, López-Baucells, A, de Castro, IJ, Hilário, RR, de Toledo, JJ, Rocha, R, Palmeirim, JM

“…The use of low-cost bioacoustic recorders in bat surveys can help to address critical knowledge gaps for poorly known aerial-hawking insectivores and support evidence-based conservation strategies.…”

Foraging niche segregation in Malaysian babblers (Family: Timaliidae) by Mansor, M.S., Ramli, R.

“…The present findings revealed that these bird species have unique foraging niches that are distinct from each other, and this may apply to other insectivorous birds inhabiting tropical forests. This suggests that niche separation does occur among coexisting birds, thus following Gause' law of competitive exclusion, which states two species occupying the same niche will not stably coexist.…”

Highly disparate bird assemblages in sugarcane and pastures: implications for bird conservation in agricultural landscapes by Eduardo R. Alexandrino, Evan R. Buechley, Yuri A. Forte, Carla C. Cassiano, Katia M. P. M. B. Ferraz, Silvio F. B. Ferraz, Hilton T. Z. Couto, Cagan H. Sekercioglu

“…We further evaluated the richness and relative abundance of avian ecological groups, including habitat specialists and habitat generalists, insectivores, omnivores, granivores and frugivores. All avian groups were higher in pastures, the habitat where landscape heterogeneity and number of scattered trees was higher. …”
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Efficacy of vermicompost amended and bacterial diversity on plant growth and pathogen control by Raghda Zuhair, Abdel Naeim Al-Assiuty, Mohamed Khalil, Wesam Salama

“…This study aimed to evaluate the microbial diversity and analyze the ability of vermicompost produced from poultry litter, household, and guano of both insectivorous and frugivorous bats to reduce root-knot nematode's infection.Method The assessment of microbial diversity was carried out by amplification of 16s rRNA gene in bacteria habitant in vermicomposit . …”
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Seasonality of coronavirus shedding in tropical bats by Léa Joffrin, Axel O. G. Hoarau, Erwan Lagadec, Olalla Torrontegi, Marie Köster, Gildas Le Minter, Muriel Dietrich, Patrick Mavingui, Camille Lebarbenchon

“…We conducted a fine-scale 2-year longitudinal study of CoV infection dynamics in the largest colony of Reunion free-tailed bats (Mormopterus francoismoutoui), a tropical insectivorous species. Real-time PCR screening of 1080 fresh individual faeces samples collected during the two consecutive years revealed an extreme variation of the detection rate of bats shedding viruses over the birthing season (from 0% to 80%). …”
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Bat Ensembles Differ in Response to Use Zones in a Tropical Biosphere Reserve by Natalie Yoh, Isham Azhar, Katheryn V. Fitzgerald, Rieka Yu, Tenaja Smith-Butler, Azniza Mahyudin, Tigga Kingston

“…Species composition and acoustic activity varied among zones and by foraging ensemble, with the core and buffer showing particular importance for conserving forest-dependent insectivorous bats. Frugivorous bats were found in all zones but were the most abundant and most species-rich ensemble within agricultural sites. …”
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The importance of old secondary forests for understory birds in the tropical Andes by Angela M. Vargas-Daza, Juan F. Betancurt-Grisales, Gabriel J. Castaño-Villa, Francisco E. Fontúrbel

“…Old secondary forests harbored some species highly specialized to mature forests (e.g., ant-following insectivorous birds: Myrmeciza longipes, Gymnopithys bicolor, Formicarius analis, and Dendrocincla fuliginosa) that are highly sensitive to habitat disturbance. …”
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Viral Metagenomic Profiling of Croatian Bat Population Reveals Sample and Habitat Dependent Diversity by Ivana Šimić, Tomaž Mark Zorec, Ivana Lojkić, Nina Krešić, Mario Poljak, Florence Cliquet, Evelyne Picard-Meyer, Marine Wasniewski, Vida Zrnčić, Anđela Ćukušić, Tomislav Bedeković

“…The presence of 63 different viral families representing all seven Baltimore groups were confirmed, most commonly insect viruses likely reflecting the diet of insectivorous bats. Virome compositions of our samples were largely impacted by the sample type: invertebrate-infecting viruses were most frequently found in feces, bacterial viruses in guano, whereas vertebrate-infecting viruses were most common in swabs. …”
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