Seasonal Patterns in Hydrogen Isotopes of Claws from Breeding Wood-Warblers (Parulidae): Utility for Estimating Migratory Origins by Kevin C. Fraser, T. Kurt. Kyser, Raleigh J. Robertson, Laurene M. Ratcliffe

“…This is the first study to examine the seasonal rate of the change in δD values of claws in long-distance, insectivorous, migratory birds.…”
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A review of theriological research in the Polissia in the XIX–XXI centuries by Inessa Bolotina, Alexandr Savarin

“…It is concluded that the Polissia theriofauna has not been fully studied (insectivores, bats, and rodents). The theriological studies in the regions of Polissia were carried out unevenly: from single visits and local expeditions to stationary and long-term monitoring studies. …”
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Variation among arthropod taxa in the amino acid content of exoskeleton and digestible tissue by J. T. Reeves, Colton Herzog, Cody L. Barnes, Craig A. Davis, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Shawn M. Wilder

“…These results demonstrate that arthropod taxa vary in amino acid content, which could have implications for prey choice by insectivores. In addition, exoskeleton and digestible tissue content differ in arthropods, which means that whole body amino acid content of an arthropod is not necessarily a predictor of amino acid intake of a predator that feeds on that arthropod.…”
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The effects of season and ontogeny in the diet of Piabarchus stramineus (Eigenmann 1908) (Characidae: Stevardiinae) from southern Brazil by Vinicius Renner Lampert, Tatiana Schmidt Dias, Karina Keyla Tondato-Carvalho, Clarice Bernhardt Fialho

“…The main food item/category was allochthonous insects, regardless of the seasons, and P. stramineus can be classified as an insectivorous species. We observed no food overlap between smaller and larger fish (SLC1 and SLC3). …”
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Trait based niche differentiation in tetrakas (Bernieridae) endemic to Madagascar: A multi-isotope approach by Elizabeth Yohannes, Elizabeth Yohannes, Jean-Louis Berthoud, Friederike Woog

“…The eastern rainforest belt of Madagascar is inhabited by several species of insectivorous tetrakas belonging to an endemic bird family of Madagascar (Bernieridae). …”
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Using environmental DNA to investigate avian interactions with flowering plants by Knud Andreas Jønsson, Emil Ellegaard Thomassen, Bulisa Iova, Katerina Sam, Philip Francis Thomsen

“…Subsequently, we sampled five clusters of wild flowers in Papua New Guinea and detected four species of birds, two of which are nectar‐feeders, and one that is an insectivorous species known to visit flowers. These four bird species were regularly seen in the area and caught in mist‐nets in the days prior to sampling of the flowers. …”
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Mesquite bugs, other insects, and a bat in the diet of pallid bats in southeastern Arizona by Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Katrina L. Menard, William D. Peachey

“…They are primarily insectivorous predators on large arthropods that occasionally take small vertebrate prey, and are at least seasonally omnivorous in certain parts of their geographic range where they take nectar from cactus flowers and eat cactus fruit pulp and seeds. …”
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Defense of Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae) against Predatory Lacewing Larvae Depends on Structural Differences of Sequestered Cardenolides by Prayan Pokharel, Marlon Sippel, Andreas Vilcinskas, Georg Petschenka

“…Remarkably, toxin sequestration protects both species against insectivorous birds, but only <i>H. superbus</i> gains protection against predatory lacewing larvae. …”
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How migratory thrushes conquered northern North America: a comparative phylogeography approach by Carrie M. Topp, Christin L. Pruett, Kevin G. McCracken, Kevin Winker

“…They have largely overlapping breeding ranges, relatively similar ecological niches, and mutualistic relationships with northern woodland communities as insectivores and seed-dispersing frugivores. As an assemblage of ecologically similar species, and given other vertebrate studies, we predicted a shared pattern of genetic divergence among these species between their eastern and western populations, and also that the timing of the coalescent events might be similar and coincident with historical glacial events. …”
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European mammal exposure to lead from ammunition and fishing weight sources by Louise Chiverton, Ruth Cromie, Richard Kock

“…Ingestion of retained ammunition in previously shot prey and/or discarded kill/gut piles with embedded ammunition was another significant pathway, contributing to predatory and scavenging carnivorous mammal exposure where an individual exposure event would be expected to be high.The mechanisms by which Pb from ammunition and fishing weight sources are moved up trophic levels and ‘transferred’ from areas of high deposition into wider food chains e.g. via water, flying invertebrates and herbivores being subsequently preyed upon requires further investigation.In conclusion, there are multiple and diverse Source-Pathway-Receptors linkages for European mammal exposures to Pb and evidence of exposure, from Europe and elsewhere, exists for some herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and insectivores. Both fatal but more likely non-fatal chronic and acute exposures may be expected to occur in wild European mammalian species, including those in poor conservation status.…”
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Testing the Likeable, Therefore Abundant Hypothesis: Bird Species Likeability by Urban Residents Varies Significantly with Species Traits by Lillian Collins, Grant D. Paton, Sara A. Gagné

“…Survey respondents preferred very small, primarily blue or black species that are insectivorous, aerial or bark foragers, residents, and culturally unimportant. …”
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Mammals of Australia's tropical savannas: a conceptual model of assemblage structure and regulatory factors in the Kimberley region. by Ian J Radford, Christopher R Dickman, Antony N Start, Carol Palmer, Karin Carnes, Corrin Everitt, Richard Fairman, Gordon Graham, Thalie Partridge, Allan Thomson

“…Unlike arid grasslands, assemblage dominance by insectivorous dasyurids (State I) did not occur in savannas. …”
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Potential Sensitivity of Québec's Breeding Birds to Climate Change by Jean-Luc DesGranges, François Morneau

“…Of the 65 species, 14 appeared to be particularly climate-sensitive. Eight are insectivorous neotropical migrants and six species are at the northern limit of their range in the study area. …”
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Composition of physiologically important fatty acids in great tits differs between urban and rural populations on a seasonal basis by Martin N Andersson, Hong-Lei eWang, Andreas eNord, Pablo eSalmon, Caroline eIsaksson

“…Great tits (Parus major) −common in both urban and rural habitats− are mainly granivorous during winter and insectivorous during summer. These diets show pronounced differences in FA composition. …”
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Why Do Kestrels Soar? by Jesús Hernández-Pliego, Carlos Rodríguez, Javier Bustamante

“…In this paper, we study the flight behavior of the insectivorous lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) during foraging trips and the influence of solar radiation, which we have adopted as a proxy for thermal formation, on kestrel flight variables. …”
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STUDI HISTOLOGI DUODENUM CODOT (Rousettus sp.) DENGAN PEWARNAAN ALCIAN BLUE pH 2,5-PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF (AB pH 2,5-PAS) by , CLARA NOVITASARI, , drh. Ariana, M.Phill

“…While subordo Microchiroptera is insectivorous bat. Research on the structure of duodenum codot (Rousettus sp.) histology become important because of those differences. …”

The socio-ecological functions of fossoriality in a group-living carnivore, the European badger (Meles meles) by Noonan, M

“…While pack hunting, and allo-parenting play a specific role in fostering communal living, I demonstrate in Part I that continued cohabitation at natal dens can often acts as a precursive mechanism initiating cohabitation, that can persists into adulthood among small, omnivorous/insectivorous, den-using carnivores. In this context, I then consider the implications of delayed dispersal and reproductive suppression. …”

Agroforestry orchards support greater avian biodiversity than monoculture oil palm and rubber tree plantations by Yahya, Muhammad Syafiq, Sharifah Nur Atikah, Mukri, Izereen, Sanusi, Ruzana, Norhisham, Ahmad Razi, Azhar, Badrul

“…Agricultural land-use type had significant effects on certain bird dietary groups (i.e., frugivores, insectivores, omnivores, and granivores). Overlap in bird species composition between habitats was rather evident, though some bird groups were more represented than others in the different habitat types. …”

Effects of monoculture and polyculture practices in oil palm smallholdings on tropical farmland birds by Azhar, B., Puan, Chong Leong, Hussin, Mohamed Zakaria, Hassan, Nuraishah, Mohd Arif

“…However, we found that the abundances of insectivores and frugivores were greater in polyculture smallholdings than in monoculture smallholdings. …”
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Effects of vegetation structure on avian biodiversity in a selectively logged hill dipterocarp forest by Syed Hassan, Sharifah Nur Atikah, Yahya, Muhammad Syafiq, Ahmad Razi, Norhisham, Kamarudin, Norizah, Sanusi, Ruzana, Md Sharif, Badrul Azhar

“…We examined the effects of site-level attributes, particularly vegetation structure on bird community composition, species richness and abundance of selected feeding guild groups (i.e. insectivorous, carnivorous, and frugivorous). Generally, we found that a selectively logged hill dipterocarp forest can still support a large proportion of forest birds, including those species with high conservation values. …”
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