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FlockPasserSparrowPredationBiologyPopulation densityVigilance (psychology)EcologyTime budgetHabitatPopulationZoologyAnimal scienceDemography
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- 28
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- 1
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- 295-309
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- 333
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C. J. Barnard
(1980).
Flock feeding and time budgets in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus L.).
Animal Behaviour
, 28
(1)
, 295-309.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(80)80032-7
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- 10.1016/s0003-3472(80)80032-7