Seasonal diet of the Great Spotted Woodpecker(Picoides major) in shelterwood plantations of Wulate Qianqi County,Inner Mongolia
Seasonal diet of the Great Spotted Woodpecker（Picoides major） in shelterwood plantations of Wulate Qianqi County,Inner Mongolia作者机构：Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education Beijing Forestry University Beijing 100083 P. R. China Forest Disease and Pest Control Station of Wulate Qianqi County Inner Mongolia Wulate Qianqi 014400 P. R. China
出 版 物：《Forest Ecosystems》 (森林生态系统(英文))
年 卷 期：2008年第10卷第2期
页 面：119-124页
基 金：Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation: 101025
主 题：Picoides major food habit foraging technique wood borer defoliator
摘 要：The feeding habits of the Great Spotted Woodpecker(Picoides major) were surveyed by field observations and trace checking from 2005 to 2007,in Wulate Qianqi County,Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,China,during which the woodpecker performed fourteen types of foraging *** and hammering were most common in winter;gleaning and probing were most common at times of high food availability at the trunk and tree branches during the breeding season and in *** woodpecker gleans arthropods and insect larvae in the breeding season and summer,seeds and nuts mainly in the winter and pokes holes for sap-sucking in *** main diet consisted of arthropods and plant *** diet was significantly different between *** Great Spotted Woodpecker primarily consumes defoliators and the food on tree trunks from March to *** contribution of wood borers to the diet was higher in winter,lower in the breeding season and *** proportion of the food on ground was small in the breeding season and high in the summer and winter.
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