Re: Re: Birds eating Iris seeds

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Found it, and you are quite right. It was Tony Huber's observation, sent in a letter to Dr Rodionenko.

The article is "Life of Seed" in the Fall 2005 SIGNA, about the various ways that iris seeds are distributed and the effect this has had on the size of the natural ranges of different species.

It concludes that "ornithochory ... [is] most poorly studied" and that the "report of T. Huber about distribution of I. versicolor seed by Canadian geese ...... for the first time gives an information about complicated interrelations in nature."

So, unless more has been discovered since 2005, that seems to be all that is known.

Diane Whitehead

On 2014-01-11, at 12:28 PM, Chuck Chapman wrote:

> There was a statement by Tony Huber in his SIGNA article on Iris
> versicolor a few years back. But it was a speculation. Not a confirmed
> observation. If there is a similar statement from Rodionenko I'd like
> to see it. But I believe that iris borer is a North American pest. I
> don't think it is in Europe.