Home tree swallow
Guava fruits (Psidium guajava) were the most important part of the diet for Red-and-Green Macaws reintroduced to the Iberá Wetlands. Photo credit: Noelia Volpe.

Advances in Avian Diet: Methods and Applications, Part 2

By Sabrina S. Taylor, Senior Editor, Ornithology A Special Feature bringing together a series of papers highlighting Advances in Avian Diet: Methods and Applications in the AOS journals Ornithology and Ornithological Applications has published the next two papers of the series in the February 2022 issue of Ornithological Applications (see the links below or the …

Photo of Anna's hummingbird feeding mid-flight
Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) feeding mid-flight on a manzanita species (Genus Arctostaphylos) in California, USA. Credit: Jerome Gaw (@CAScrubJay on Twitter)

Advances in Avian Diet: Methods and Applications

By Sabrina S. Taylor, Senior Editor, Ornithology Studying avian diet has never been easy, but several methodological advances have enabled novel insights, collectively sparking a renewed interest and vigor in avian diet studies. Accordingly, three recent NAOC and AOS symposia reflect this interest and have highlighted ways that traditional, genetic, and tracer approaches can be …