[The waxwing Bombycilla garrulus as a frugivorous feeding specialist (author's transl)].
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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Der Seidenschwanz Bombycilla garrulus als frugivorer Ernährungsspezialist