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Black-headed gulls steal food from plovers. As we saw in Chapter 2, they seem to be able to obtain in excess of their daily energy requirement solely by stealing earthworms from foraging lapwings. In the preceding chapters, it has also become clear that the arrival of gulls in a flock and their kleptoparasitic activity has a complex effect on time budgeting, feeding efficiency and flock dynamics in both lapwings and golden plovers.
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© 1985 C.J. Barnard and D.B.A. Thompson
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Barnard, C.J., Thompson, D.B.A. (1985). Kleptoparasitism: Host and Prey Selection by Gulls. In: Gulls and Plovers. Studies in Behavioural Adaptation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4864-8_8
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