Diet Overlap

Trichosurus vulpecula (Common Brushtail)
Turdus philomelos (Song Thrush)

Common Diet

Hedycarya arborea (Pigeonwood)
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Ripogonum scandens
Schefflera digitata (Schefflera)

Common Habitat

South Taupo Wetland

Attributes / relations provided by
1NUTRITIONAL 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)
2THE 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
3Brushtail 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
4FLESHY 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