He lives chiefly on seeds, though, like other granivorous birds, he feeds his young with grubs and small insects. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
I will leave the granivorous birds to speak of another class, equally hardy, but of habits more like those of the Woodpecker. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
Evidence of disarray amongst granivorous bird assemblages in the savannas of northern Australia, a region of sparse human settlement. From Wordnik.com. [Arnhem Land tropical savanna] Reference
Thirty-five to forty species of granivorous birds, among which we occasionally find in winter that rare Arctic bird, the Evening Grosbeak. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
The grasslands and savanna woodlands support a very rich and abundant assemblage of granivorous birds, including the endangered gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae). From Wordnik.com. [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference
This is a general practice with the granivorous tribes, in order to provide their young with soft and digestible food before they are strong enough to digest the hard, coriaceous seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
The abundance of granivorous rodents and the occurrence of marsupial genera (e.g., species of Planigale and Sminthhopsis) that dominate dry habitats of modern Australia suggest that if rainforest was present, it was confined to refugia within the region. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia] Reference
Common granivorous species were conspicuously absent. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
Therefore, absurd as it may sound, I am prepared to affirm that Pinguicula is not only insectivorous, but graminivorous, and granivorous!. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
They are usually granivorous, though some are insectivorous; and one species, the "red-billed weaver bird" is a parasite of the wild buffaloes. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
All creation, nearly, preys on some other part of creation -- except that respectable number that are granivorous, and herbivorous, and graminivorous. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
There were some granivorous dinosaurs, a few very closely related to T. rex, which seem to have subsisted on ancient precursors to the cereals of today. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
A garrulous population of birds enliven the forest; they are insectivorous, granivorous, and omnivorous but all are beautiful in their rich and wonderful variety of colour. From Wordnik.com. [My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)] Reference
Pheidole includes many granivorous species and, to our knowledge, is reported at seeds in every systematic study of small-seed dispersal and granivory in the New World tropics. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
If Shakespeare had made the house sparrow, or the blackbird, or the bunting, or any of the granivorous, hard-billed birds, the foster-parent of the cuckoo, his natural history would have been at fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
We found the case to be the same with the ring-tail hawk, in respect to formation; and, as far as I can recollect, with the swift; and probably it is so with many more sorts of birds that are not granivorous. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference
The extraordinary powers of the gizzard of the granivorous tribes, in comminuting their food so as to prepare it for digestion, would, were they not supported by incontrovertible facts founded on experiment, appear to exceed all credibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Profitable and highly useful it is under every disadvantage, as it makes the richest and sweetest food for all kinds of granivorous animals, even in its green state, and affords sound good food when ripe, or even partially ripe, for fattening beasts and working oxen. From Wordnik.com. [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference
With respect to the habit of the granivorous birds, particularly the gallinaceae and ostriches, of swallowing sand and small pebbles, it has been hitherto attributed to an instinctive desire of accelerating the trituration of the aliments in a muscular and thick stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
This liquid does not act indiscriminately upon all substances; for if grains of corn be put into a perforated tube, and a granivorous bird be made to swallow it, the corn will remain the usual time in the stomach without alteration; whereas if the husk of the grain be previously taken off, the whole of it will be dissolved. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
Finally, I will briefly consider under the same point of view one other class of instincts, which have often been advanced as truly wonderful, namely parents bringing food to their young which they themselves neither like nor partake of; -- for instance, the common sparrow, a granivorous bird, feeding its young with caterpillars. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference
It appears hardly possible that a soft-billed bird should subsist on the same food with the hard-billed: for the former have thin membranaceous stomachs suited to their soft food, while the latter, the granivorous tribe, have strong muscular gizzards, which, like mills, grind, by the help of small gravels and pebbles, what is swallowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference
“The rhaad, or safsaf, is a granivorous and gregarious bird, which wanteth the hinder toe. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
But if we now transport ourselves to the conditions which man had to face during the glacial period, in a damp and cold climate, with but little vegetable food at his disposal; if we take into account the terrible ravages which scurvy still makes among underfed natives, and remember that meat and fresh blood are the only restoratives which they know, we must admit that man, who formerly was a granivorous animal, became a flesh-eater during the glacial period. From Wordnik.com. [Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution] Reference
To've been carnivorous as well as granivorous. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
A granivorous bird in the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
3. granivorous. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
That, carnivorous, "he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets;" this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c., horns, none! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
Among the granivorous, the turkey, the wapo (a small kind of prairie ostrich), the golden and common pheasant, the wild peacock, of a dull whitish colour, and the guinea-fowl; these two last, which are very numerous, are not indigenous to this part of the country, but about a century ago escaped from the various missions of Upper California, at which they had been bred, and since have propagated in incredible numbers; also the grouse, the prairie hen, the partridge, the quail, the green parrot, the blackbird, and many others which I cannot name, not knowing their generic denomination. From Wordnik.com. [Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet] Reference
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