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. 2019 Oct 10;9:14512. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50986-4

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Estimated number of scavengers supported annually during a wading bird nesting period of 60 days for (a) alligators and (b) Turkey Vultures. The dotted line is the estimated average number of alligators sustained and the solid line is the estimated average number of Turkey Vultures sustained. Open circles represent the total number of nest starts for each year. Stacked bars show the relative contribution of each wading bird species to the total energy available and the number of individual scavengers that can be supported from it. Bars marked with an asterisk have nest success data from all three wading bird species. Note that there are no estimates for number of nests for Wood Storks or White Ibis before 2010 and that there were zero nesting Wood Storks in 2012.