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Study: Birds eat far fewer invertebrates Cast coffee plantations the spring of 2020 Costa Rica.
In Costa Rica, the land around the Las Cruces Biological Station near the Panama border, has gon Central America rested to now 50% coffee plantations, 20% cattle pastures and 10% other human environments.
Researchers analyzed isotopes in the feathers of four species of birds to see how their diets are preserved in thei the University of Utah lantations are deficient in invertebrates preferred by forest generalist birds that forage in both native forest remnants and coffee plantations.
Birds need to forage frequently in the small forest fragments of around 7-12 acres (about the size of the parking lot at the U's Rice-Eccles Stadium) To consume enough invertebrate, the birds need to eat frequently in forest fragments and narrow corridors of forests alongside rivers. Çağan H. Şekercioğlu __NxlGi">University of Utah the U's School of Biological Sciences ass="summaryFeed_highLightText__NxlGi">10.3389 2023 Frontiers in Ecology Costa Rican Frontiers of Ecology Gi">H. Şekercioğlu
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