Owners and Satellites: The Economics of Territory Defence in the Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 50 (1), 157-180
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4038
Abstract
(1) Pied wagtails defended winter feeding territories along a river. They fed on insects that were washed up onto the river banks. These formed a renewing food ...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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