The integration of osmoregulation and energy balance in nectar-feeding birds

Purchase, Cromwell 154 PAGES (35094 WORDS) Zoology Thesis

Abstract:

Nectar-feeding birds must ingest copious amounts of water due to their liquid diet. Large volumes of preformed water in the dilute diet mean that birds feeding on these diets risk the loss of solutes in order to excrete this water. Previous studies have found that on dilute diets (