Sentences with phrase «seeds than birds»

It was well - known that bears were dispersing seeds through their scat, Levi said, but it was not known that they were dispersing more seeds than birds, or the relative contribution of brown and black bears to seed dispersal, or whether the two species bears were eating berries at different times of the year.

Not exact matches

I heard more birds chirping this morning than I had in months and I'll have to look for some unsalted seeds to share with them too.

Who knew sunflower seeds could be more than just bird food!

More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that species could cross oceans and other vast distances on vegetation rafts, icebergs, or in the case of plant seeds, in the plumage of birds.

In a nursery experiment, Rogers found that seeds that had been ingested by birds were two - to - four times more likely to germinate than seeds still within the fruit flesh.

In experiments in the lab, seeds that had been eaten and excreted by the birds sprouted sooner and more often than those from whole fruits (Ecological Applications, doi.org/cmhf).

Pelleted diets are also more similar than seed mix diets to the diet that a bird in the wild would consume.

Pelleted food is a healthier choice than a seed diet, but it is important to convert birds slowly by offering seeds at the cage bottom, and pellets mixed with a few seeds at a higher location.

Having said that, the dish or plate section of each bird feeder can be filled with bird seed if someone would feel inclined to feed the birds, rather than just let one sit pretty on a table or shelf in a patio or porch.