Diet Overlap

Trichosurus vulpecula (Common Brushtail)
Anthornis melanura (New Zealand Bellbird)

Common Diet

Coprosma foetidissima
Coprosma rotundifolia
Elaeocarpus pierrei
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)
Macropiper excelsum
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Pterophylla racemosa

Common Habitat

Arthur's Pass National Park
South Taupo Wetland

Attributes / relations provided by
1Brushtail 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
2O'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
3FLESHY FRUITS OF INDIGENOUS AND ADVENTIVE PLANTS IN THE DIET OF BIRDS IN FOREST REMNANTS, NELSON, NEW ZEALAND, PETER A. WILLIAMS and BRIAN J. KARL, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1996) 20(2): 127-145
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
5HONEYEATERS AND THE NEW ZEALAND FOREST FLORA: THE UTILISATION AND PROFITABILITY OF SMALL FLOWERS, Isabel Castro and Alastair W. Robertson, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1997) 21(2): 169-179
6NUTRITIONAL 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)