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PLoS ONE, 2015 Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, and impose the costs associated with rearing parasitic young onto these hosts. Many hosts of brood parasites defend against parasitism by removing foreign eggs from the nest.
Rebecca Croston, Mark E Hauber
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Which egg features predict egg rejection responses in American robins? : replicating Rothstein's (1982) study [PDF]
, 2018 Rothstein (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 11, 1982, 229) was one of the first comprehensive studies to examine how different egg features influence egg rejection behaviors of avian brood parasite-hosts.
Croston, Rebecca +5 more
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Bird Interspecific Brood Parasitism Record in the Third Century
BirdsThe phenomenon of interspecies brood parasitism, characterized by parasitic birds depositing their eggs within the nests of unrelated host species for subsequent hatching and rearing, represents a pivotal aspect of ornithological research, owing to its ...
Dongyang Li, Yimei Zhang, Canwei Xia
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Host response to cuckoo song is predicted by the future risk of brood parasitism [PDF]
, 2013 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Colombelli-Negrel, Diane +5 more
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Avian Research, 2019 Background Our knowledge of avian brood parasitism is primarily based on studies of a few selected species. Recently, researchers have targeted a wider range of host–parasite systems, which has allowed further evaluation of hypotheses derived from well ...
Odd Helge Tunheim +7 more
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No evidence of host-specific egg mimicry in Asian koels.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Avian brood parasitism is costly for the host, in many cases leading to the evolution of defenses like discrimination of parasitic eggs. The parasite, in turn, may evolve mimetic eggs as a counter-adaptation to host egg rejection.
Mominul Islam Nahid +7 more
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Why should Common Cuckoos Cuculus canorus lay their eggs in host nests? [PDF]
, 2016 Capsule Brood parasitic Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus chicks hatch earlier than the nestlings of their Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus hosts, but hatching priority is less certain when cuckoo eggs are laid after the onset of host incubation.
Bán, Miklós +3 more
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The effect of Common Cuckoo parasitism on the annual productivity of a host population
Avian ResearchAvian interspecific brood parasitism is an excellent system for studying coevolutionary processes in nature because brood parasites directly affect host reproductive success.
Alfréd Trnka
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Animals, 2022 Bird nests function as vessels for eggs and nestlings, and an environment for rearing offspring. However, foreign objects falling into bird nests and nestling eggshells may be harmful.
Qiuhui Yang +5 more
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Is it best on the nest? Effects of avian life-history on haemosporidian parasitism
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020 Infectious diseases vary in prevalence and pathology among host species. Species may differ in prevalence of infection due to varying exposure and susceptibility to disease agents throughout their lifetime, which may be attributable to underlying ...
Claudia Ganser +4 more
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