Concealed by darkness: interactions between predatory bats and nocturnally migrating songbirds illuminated by DNA sequencing
Ibáñez, Carlos; Popa-Lisseanu, Ana G.; Pastor-Beviá, David; García-Mudarra, Juan L.; Juste, Javier;
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
- Journal: issn: 1365-294X
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Related identifiers: , - Subject: Bird migration | Nyctalus lasiopterus | Noctules | Molecular diet | Trophic: Chiroptera
Recently, several species of aerial-hawking bats have been found to prey on migrating songbirds, but details on this behaviour and its relevance for bird migration are still unclear. We sequenced avian DNA in feather-containing scats of the bird-feeding bat Nyctalus las... View more