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adj. - Feeding on fishes.

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  • Climate change causes contrasting trends in reproductive performance of planktivorous and piscivorous alcids.
  • Some piscivorous species also consume crustaceans, mollusks, and marine worms, while some planktivorous species occasionally eat fish.
  • It has the world's largest concentration of wintering shorebirds and extremely diversified communities of nesting piscivorous birds - about 15 species.
  • Toxaphene toxaphene is the major organochlorine contaminant in all fish analyzed highest toxaphene levels are generally seen in fish that are strictly piscivorous...
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