Nectar as food for birds: the physiological consequences of drinking dilute sugar solutions

By S. Nicolson, Patricia A. Fleming. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 2003

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Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators (2015, background): “…in nectarivory, with three major radiations of specialized nectarivores on different continents: hummingbirds (Trochilidae) in the Americas, sunbirds and spiderhunters (Nectariniidae) in Africa and Asia, and honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) in Australasia (Nicolson & Fleming 2003; Cronk & Ojeda 2008).”
Evolutionary changes in nectar sugar composition associated with switches between bird and insect pollination: the Canarian bird‐flower element revisited (2004, background): “The general dominance of hexose-nectars among the Canarian ornithophilous species does not preclude ancient pollination by sunbirds, because extant African sunbirds feed on both sucrose and hexose nectars ( Nicolson & Fleming 2003 ).”
Sugar Preferences in Nectar‐ and Fruit‐Eating Birds: Behavioral Patterns and Physiological Causes 1 (2005, background): “…for sugars of different nectar- and fruit-eating birds, and the physiological causes of these preferences in relation to the evolution of bird–plant interactions (see Appendix 1; Mart́ınez del Rio et al. 1992, 2001; Baker et al. 1998; Nicolson & Fleming 2003; Schondube & Mart́ınez del Rio 2003a).”