Diet and Foraging

Brown Trembler is omnivorous, consuming fruit, arthropods, and small vertebrates. The diet is best known from stomach content analysis of 20 tremblers from Dominica (Zusi 1969). Of these, 13 stomachs contained both plant and animal material, five contained only animal material, and two contained only fruit. Invertebrates documented in the diet include snails, scorpions, spiders, beetles, cockroaches, and orthopterans. Eight of the stomachs also contained small vertebrates (Eleutherodactylus frogs and Anolis lizards). At least 10 different species of fruit were among the plant material in these stomachs.