期刊名称：International Journal of Applied Science - Research and Review
电子版ISSN：2394-9988
出版年度：2014
卷号：1
期号：3
页码：144-149
语种：English
出版社：Insight Medical Publishing
摘要：This documentation reports an analysis of the diet selection along with the diverse feeding strategies being utilised by Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis coromandus) from Jammu. In the study area, Cattle Egrets were recorded to be strictly insectivorous with the preference of grasshoppers, flies, house crickets, mole crickets and earthworms in the grassland ecosystem and beetles, backswimmers, molluscs, orthoptera larvae, fishes and frogs in aquatic ecosystem. Moreover, the behavioural methods, like walking steadily in shallow waters, running with stabs usually on land, standing and waiting and capturing flying prey from a standing position were registered to be the main feeding techniques exploited by Cattle Egrets during the study period.
