Osmoregulatory and metabolic costs of salt excretion in the Rufous-collared sparrow Zonotrichia capensis

I Peña-Villalobos, F Valdés-Ferranty, P Sabat - … and Physiology Part A …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent experiments on shorebirds have demonstrated that maintaining an active
osmoregulatory machinery is energetically expensive. This may, in part, explain diet and …