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["Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill et al.,

I, too, have seen warblers, etc., feeding in ragweed.  
They seemed to be taking small caterpillars.

Van Remsen, from LSU, once pointed out to me the
importance of this plant as a food source for songbirds.

Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN


> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/28/2006 9:34:33 PM
> Subject: [TN-Bird] migrants and ragweed
>
> The last week I have noticed large numbers of warblers and vireos  
> foraging in the thickets of giant ragweed around my place (Ambrosia  
> trifida, the one with big, tri-lobed leaves that grows 12+ feet tall  
> in dense stands along creeks and roadsides).  Tennessee Warblers have  
> been especially numerous, but they are especially numerous everywhere  
> lately.  There have also been Nashville, Magnolia, and Bay-breasted  
> Warblers and an assortment of vireos.  I haven't been able to tell if  
> they are gleaning insects or if they are actually feeding on the  
> ragweed flowers.  Does anyone know anything about this particular  
> association?
>
> Bill Pulliam
> Hohenwald TN
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