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Aquatic birds usually exploit unstable or fluctuating environments along their cycle and among different years. These environments also show high productivity, resource-partitioning mechanisms, as well as ecological isolation, partial ecological specialization, prey captures of different size, type and shape, at different times of the day, and in different microhabitats, are observed in these species.
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Beltzer, A.H., Quiroga, M.A. (2007). Birds. In: Iriondo, M.H., Paggi, J.C., Parma, M.J. (eds) The Middle Paraná River. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70624-3_15
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