10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISTLETOE BIRD»
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The Ecological Web: More on the Distribution and Abundance ...
2.35 Symbiosis: Mutualism When an animal's food includes a residue (as defined
in sec. 3.1), the animal, by its eating, does not enter the environment of the
organism that made the residue. For example, the Australian mistletoe bird,
Dicaeum ...
H. G. Andrewartha, L. C. Birch, 1986
2
Wildlife on Farms: How to Conserve Native Animals
Mistletoe produces abundant nectar, fruit, and seeds that are eaten by many
species of birds and animals including the mistletoe bird (see the box below).
The leaves of mistletoes are food for mammals such as the common ringtail
possum.
Andrew Claridge, Donna Hazell, Ross Cunningham, 2003
3
Biological Diversity: Exploiters and Exploited
The grey-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum celebicum), a mistletoe bird of the Old
World tropics, shows such adaptation: it has a mechanism which prevents the
mistletoe seeds from entering the gizzard, so that they pass through the bird ...
Paul Hatcher, Nick Battey, 2011
4
J. Educ: (Boston, Mass.)
For I am the mistletoe bird! V. To the northern hills my hope I bear, Where the bird
wings beat the winds and snow. They hang my song in the enchanted air, O'er
the hearth's red light, in the mistletoe, And there in the crystal season's breath
The ...
5
Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and ...
In Acacia papyrocarpa woodlands in South Australia, the spiny-cheeked
honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis) and the mistletoe bird (Dicaeum
hirundinaceum) eat seeds of the mistletoe Amyema quandang and deposit them
on live ...
Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin, 2014
6
Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants
The mistletoe bird specializes on mistletoe fruits and has a short digestive tract
and reduced gizzard. The entrance to the gizzard is narrower than the entrance
to the duodenum. As a result, fruits pass from the proventriculus to the intestine, ...
Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, 1999
The Amaryllis azure butterfly depends on the lives of a mistletoe plant, a
eucalyptus tree, a sugar ant and a mistletoe bird for its survival. There is avery
special relationship between all these living things. If something goes wrong or
one of the ...
8
Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist
Much of the success of Australian mistletoes can be attributed to a single species
of bird, the mistletoe bird (Dicaeum hirun- dinaceum), a nomadic creature that
actively seeks out isolated populations of mistletoe as they come into fruit and the
...
9
Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts
Rejuvenation of vegetation after the bushfires in the National Park, South
Australia. South Australian Naturalist 20, 43^48. Cleland, J.B. (1940b). The
distribution of South Australian mistletoes and the mistletoe bird. South Australian
Naturalist ...
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Conservation of Tropical Birds
... resulted in a significant decrease in mistletoe-feeding and woodland-
dependent bird species (Watson 2002), emphasizing the mistletoe–bird co-
dependence. species and large frugivores (Stocker and Irvine 1983; Hamann
and Curio 1999), ...
Navjot S. Sodhi, Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Jos Barlow, 2011
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISTLETOE BIRD»
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Mistletoe birds are 'cheats'
Contrary to popular belief, specialist animals such as the Mistletoe bird from Australia are not vital to the spread of parasitic mistletoes through ... «Phys.Org, Sep 13»
Mistletoe can be a friend or foe, depending on your point of view
... mistletoe is an important part of the ecosystem because it provides an excellent source of food for many birds, including the mistletoe bird. «LubbockOnline.com, Nov 08»
