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I CAN confirm Mr. Lowe's theory on this question. For many years I have had robins coming to the hand for food in my garden. Before flying to the hand they constantly wait until they have succeeded in ejecting seeds from their crops. Great tits and blue tits also come to the hand, but never pause to eject anything. They are probably not large consumers of poisonous fruits.
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FOX, H. Birds and Poisonous Fruit. Nature 59, 149–150 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059149h0
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