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Anthropogenic food availability and body mass maintenance in urban Red-winged Starlings Onychognathus morio

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posted on 2021-03-26, 11:00 authored by Taylyn Risi, Petra SumasgutnerPetra Sumasgutner, Susan CunninghamSusan Cunningham
Dataset associated with the publication in Ostrich "Anthropogenic food availability and body mass maintenance in urban Red-winged Starlings Onychognathus morio", by Risi, T; Sumasgutner, P; Cunningham, SJ.

Includes focal behaviour and diet data of red-winged starlings on the University of Cape Town campus on weekdays and weekends and degree of impervious surfaces in their home ranges. Also includes body mass and body size data from colour-ringed starlings, habituated to perch on a top-pan scale and weighed repeated through time.

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FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town

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    Body conditionbuilt-up indexcitizen science observationshome range sizeimpervious surfacesurban conservationAnimal BehaviourBehavioural EcologyGlobal Change BiologyTerrestrial EcologyZoology

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