As a group we became intrigued with the dynamics between perching birds that use feeders as their source of food and foraging birds that rely on food that they find on the ground. The main question that continued to arise was whether there was a competitive relationship between these two groups, the first question being whether perching birds attracted foraging birds. As birds perch on a feeder and eat, seed will be dropped from the feeder to the ground. Understanding that, our first goal was to examine if there was a correlation between a bird being at a feeder and the appearance of a ground forager or if they were unrelated and both groups operated individually from one another. Our next question was whether there was a level of competition present among each group and between each group. As a result, our group decided to analyze the interspecific feeding competition between perch-feeding birds as well as the interspecific feeding competition between ground-feeding birds.
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