The visiting grassland gardeners
Reported byMongabay India ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
Two harrier species—pallid and Montagu's harriers—that migrate thousands of kilometres from Central Asia and Russia to India's grasslands annually consume seeds inside their prey's gut and expel them unharmed, acting as grassland seed dispersers while hunting small mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects.
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