Question

In North American forest, two species of birds, nuthatches and brown creepers, forage on the same trees for insects. Brown creepers feed on insects near the bottom of the tree trunk, while nuthatches feed on insects in the top part of the tree. The difference in foraging behavior most likely affects the nuthatches and brown creepers by: allowing birds to avoid many types of predators allowing birds to avoid many types of predators reducing competition between the birds for resources reducing competition between the birds for resources preventing the birds from interbreeding with each other preventing the birds from interbreeding with each other establishing dominance between the birds for nesting sites

Answer 1

The correct answer is - reducing competition between the birds for resources.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this ecosystem, the two species of birds brown creepers and nuthatches share habitat in the same tree for their food resources are insects. Brown creepers feed on resources on the bottom of the tree whereas nuthatches feed on the top of the tree.

By this, they avoid competition between these two birds for the same food resources in the same tree. The competition would be more if both have depended on the insects all over the tree.