Breeding Meadow Pipits select foraging sites with high arthropod biomass on intensively grazed moorland | Bird decline, insect decline and neonicotinoids

Foraging sites with low vegetation height and density, but with high arthropod biomass, are selected by Meadow Pipits Anthus pratensis breeding on intensively grazed moorland. Meadow Pipits select particular prey types to provision nestlings, in particular, Lepidoptera larvae, adult Tipulidae and Arachnida.