Diet Overlap

Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (New Zealand Pigeon)
Trichosurus vulpecula (Common Brushtail)

Common Diet

Coprosma foetidissima
Coprosma rotundifolia
Elaeocarpus pierrei
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)
Hedycarya arborea (Pigeonwood)
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Ripogonum scandens

Common Habitat

Arthur's Pass National Park

Attributes / relations provided by
1O'Donnell, Colin F J and Dilks, Peter J, Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South. Westland, New Zealand, NZ J Ecology 18(2) (1994) pp. 87-107
2Brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) diet in a north Westland mixed-beech (Nothofagus) forest, C. Hamish Cochrane, David A. Norton, Craig J. Miller and Robert B. Allen, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2003) 27(1): 61-65
3THE IMPORTANCE OF BIRDS AS BROWSERS, POLLINATORS AND SEED DISPERSERS IN NEW ZEALAND FORESTS, M.N. Clout and J. R. Hay, NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, VOL 12, (SUPPLEMENT) 1989, pp. 27-33
4NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES OF SOME FRUITS EATEN BY THE POSSUM TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA IN A NEW ZEALAND BROADLEAF – PODOCARP FOREST, C. K. WILLIAMS, New Zealand Journal of Ecology 5: 16-20
5NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES OF SOME FRUITS EATEN BY THE POSSUM TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA IN A NEW ZEALAND BROADLEAF – PODOCARP FOREST, C. K. WILLIAMS, New Zealand Journal of Ecology 5: 16-20 (1982)