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Diet of Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus in a farmland area near Algiers, Algeria

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The diet of the Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus was analysed in a recently colonised area in Meftah, south-eastern Algiers, Algeria. The diet was determined by analysing 144 pellets. Our data showed that the diet was dominated by rodents with Algerian mouse Mus spretus comprising between 61% and 77% of the diet. Based on relative biomass, rodents were the main prey species, comprising 88.1% of the diet in 2006, 68.4% in 2007 and 52.0% in 2008. Birds were the second-most important prey, comprising as much as 43.4% of the diet in 2008. The Algerian mouse was the major prey species both in spring (60.0% in 2007) and in summer (80.0% in 2006).
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hal-02401598 , version 1 (10-12-2019)

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Abdessalam Manaa, Karim Souttou, Makhlouf Sekour, Djamel Bendjoudi, Omar Guezoul, et al.. Diet of Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus in a farmland area near Algiers, Algeria. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 2013, 84 (2), pp.113-117. ⟨10.2989/00306525.2013.781551⟩. ⟨hal-02401598⟩

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