The passenger pigeon changed its diet depending on the season. In the fall, winter, and spring, it mainly ate beechnuts, acorns, and chestnuts.

They were both seedeaters. The slightly larger passenger pigeon specialized in big seeds, eating acorns and the nuts of hickories, beeches, and chestnuts. The ...

FEEDING: In the fall, winter and spring, this bird mainly ate beechnuts, acorns and chestnuts. During the summer it ate mainly berries and berries and softer ...

While acorns are the most cited food source, Passenger Pigeons were observed eating over 42 genera of plant seeds and fruits, even occasionally consuming ...

14 июн. 2021 г. · Passenger pigeon's diet included grapes, mulberries, acorns, chestnuts, cherries, beechnuts, dogwoods, and pokeberries. In winter they relied ...

4 мар. 2020 г. · Main Foods Taken Mast, in apparent order of preference: beechnuts, acorns, chestnuts (Castanea dentata) in fall, winter, and spring. In summer, berries and ...

In autumn, winter and spring, it ate mostly nuts, acorns and chestnuts. In summer, the main food eaten were berries and soft fruits like blueberry, grape, ... Voice · Behavior · Feeding

So Blockstein responded with a letter to Science, in which he suggested that passenger pigeons would have descended during mast events, devouring acorns and ...

13 нояб. 2018 г. · Like all birds of this sort, it depends a lot on what they were eating at the time. The passenger pigeons ate beech nuts and acorns and ...