Predators
Locations where studies were conducted:
Country: USA; State: Arizona; Locality: Sonora Desert
Habitat: Desert or dune
Country: Canada; State: Manitoba
Habitat: Forest
Country: USA; State: Illinois
Habitat: Forest
Country: USA; State: Arizona
Habitat: Forest, Montane
Country: Namibia; Locality: Namib Desert
Habitat: Desert or dune
Country: USA; State: California; Locality: Cabrillo Point
Habitat: Grassland
Unspecified
Country: New Zealand
Habitat: Grassland
Country: Russia
Habitat: Agricultural
Country: USA; State: New Jersey
Habitat: Agricultural
Country: USA; State: New York; Locality: Long Island
Habitat: Marine
Cardinalis cardinalis (backbirds, mockingbird, oriole, cardinal) preys on:
- seeds of other plants
- mistletoe {mistletoe (berries)}
- Orthoptera {Orthoptera 2 families 23 spp.}
- Lepidoptera {Lepidoptera 22 families 234 spp.}
- Gryllidae {crickets}
- cactus weevils {cactus beetles, cactus weevils}
- Moneilema {cactus beetles, cactus weevils}
- Papilionoidea {butterflies}
Country: USA; State: Arizona; Locality: Sonora Desert
Habitat: Desert or dune
Country: Canada; State: Manitoba
Habitat: Forest
Country: USA; State: Illinois
Habitat: Forest
Country: USA; State: Arizona
Habitat: Forest, Montane
Country: Namibia; Locality: Namib Desert
Habitat: Desert or dune
Country: USA; State: California; Locality: Cabrillo Point
Habitat: Grassland
Unspecified
Country: New Zealand
Habitat: Grassland
Country: Russia
Habitat: Agricultural
Country: USA; State: New Jersey
Habitat: Agricultural
Country: USA; State: New York; Locality: Long Island
Habitat: Marine
Cardinalis cardinalis (backbirds, mockingbird, oriole, cardinal) preys on:
- seeds of other plants
- mistletoe {mistletoe (berries)}
- Orthoptera {Orthoptera 2 families 23 spp.}
- Lepidoptera {Lepidoptera 22 families 234 spp.}
- Gryllidae {crickets}
- cactus weevils {cactus beetles, cactus weevils}
- Moneilema {cactus beetles, cactus weevils}
- Papilionoidea {butterflies}
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- A. C. Twomey, The bird population of an elm-maple forest with special reference to aspection, territorialism, and coactions, Ecol. Monogr. 15(2):175-205, from p. 202 (1945).
- D. I. Rasmussen, Biotic communities of Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, Ecol. Monogr. 11(3):228-275, from p. 261 (1941).
- D. J. Shure, Radionuclide tracer analysis of trophic relationships in an old-field ecosystem, Ecol. Monogr. 43(1):1-19, from p. 15 (1973).
- E. Holm and C. H. Scholtz, Structure and pattern of the Namib Desert dune ecosystem at Gobabeb, Madoqua 12(1):3-39, from p. 21 (1980).
- K. Paviour-Smith, The biotic community of a salt meadow in New Zealand, Trans. R. Soc. N.Z. 83(3):525-554, from p. 542 (1956).
- R. D. Bird, Biotic communities of the Aspen Parkland of central Canada, Ecology, 11:356-442, from p. 410 (1930).
- L. D. Harris and L. Paur, A quantitative food web analysis of a shortgrass community, Technical Report No. 154, Grassland Biome. U.S. International Biological Program (1972), from p. 17.
- P. G. Howes, The Giant Cactus Forest and Its World: A Brief Biology of the Giant Cactus Forest of Our American Southwest (Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, New York; Little, Brown, Boston; 1954), from pp. 222-239, from p. 227.
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