Reading the HANZAB species account indicates that it isn't common to feed
on the ground with only one reference cited as far as I could see. They do
eat insects so perhaps in the 10 minutes it cleaned up the prey, or the
remaining prey scarpered, in either case leaving nothing for you to find?
Martin
On 3 September 2013 12:58, John Leonard <> wrote:
> A few days ago I observed a Mistletoebird (male) fly from a tree ad perch
> on a barbed wire fence. It then flew to the ground and spent the next ten
> minutes foraging. The ground as bare earth with scattered clumps of grass
> grazed very low. it was picking things up, but even with binoculars I
> couldn't see what these were. After it left I examined the ground but
> didn't get any clues.
>
> I have never seen a Mistletoebird foraging on the ground before, is this
> common. Any idea of what it might have been picking up?
>
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