Abstract:The diet of an individual animal is subject to change over time, both in
response to short-term food fluctuations and over longer time scales as
an individual ages and meets different challenges over its life cycle. A
metabarcoding approach was used to elucidate the diet of different life
stages of a songbird, the Eurasian reed warbler (Acrocephalus
scirpaceus) over the summer breeding season of 2017. The faeces of
adult, juvenile and nestling warblers were screened for invertebrate
DNA, enabling identificatio… Show more
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