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[The waxwing Bombycilla garrulus as a frugivorous feeding specialist (author's transl)]
Experientia
|November 15, 1976
Abstract:
Eight waxwings, Bombycilla garrulus, were fed exclusively with vegetable food for periods of 10-18 days. In contrast to other song birds, they maintained or increased body weight during that time, or reduced it only moderately. Thus the waxwing is a feeding specialist which can subsist at least temporarily on a totally vegetable diet.
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