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The diet of coastal breeding hooded crows Corvus corone cornix
Berrow, S.D.; Kelly, T.C.; Myers, A.A. (1992). The diet of coastal breeding hooded crows Corvus corone cornix. Ecography 15(4): 337-346. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1992.tb00044.x
In: Ecography. Munksgaard International: Copenhagen. ISSN 0906-7590; e-ISSN 1600-0587, more
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Keywords
    Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Berrow, S.D.
  • Kelly, T.C.
  • Myers, A.A.

Abstract
    Three methods of analysis were used to determine the diet of territorial hooded crows at Lough Hyne Marine Reserve, Co Cork, Ireland The regular collection of prey Items from these sites at Lough Hyne was integrated with pellet and stomach analysis to determine diet Intertidal organisms occurred in over 80% of pellets and 43% of stomachs and occupied over 77% of the total wet weight of foods identified in pellets All prey items recovered from drop sites originated from the intertidal habitat, involved either large-sized species or larger individuals of smaller-sized species, and were only dropped during October to February Twenty-five intertidal species were identified but only a few of these species contributed to the bulk of the diet Hooded crows were shown to consume a wide range of intertidal species throughout the year, though the species composition in the diet was seasonally influenced Depletion and weight loss of intertidal molluscs through the winter was shown to have a minimal effect on selection suggesting that prey switching was driven by the birds nutritional requirements.

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