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- Title
Snakes for lunch: bird predation on reptiles in a tropical floodplain.
- Authors
Sergo, Dudley; Shine, Richard
- Abstract
Based on collaboration between a wildlife photographer and a scientist, this paper provides novel information and images of predation by birds (Black-necked Storks, White-bellied Sea-Eagles, Whistling Kites) on reptiles (Macleay's Water Snakes, Keelback Snakes, Long-necked Turtles). The observations and photographs come from the wall of Fogg Dam, 60 km east of Darwin, the site of a long-term ecological research program on reptiles and amphibians. Professional ecologists rarely witness predation on their study animals, and this has been true at Fogg Dam despite >20 years' continuous research on reptiles at the site. The photographs provide the first specific records of predation upon reptiles by birds in this floodplain ecosystem.
- Subjects
FLOODPLAIN ecology; BIRDS of prey; FORAGING behavior; SNAKES; PREDATION; REPTILES
- Publication
Australian Zoologist, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 3, p311
- ISSN
0067-2238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7882/AZ.2014.046