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A generalist brood parasite modifies use of a host in response to reproductive success. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2015 A generalist brood parasite modifies use of a host in response to reproductive ...
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The neuroethology of avian brood parasitism [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021 ABSTRACTObligate brood-parasitic birds never build nests, incubate eggs or supply nestlings with food or protection. Instead, they leave their eggs in nests of other species and rely on host parents to raise their offspring, which allows the parasite to continue reproducing throughout the breeding season. Although this may be a clever fitness strategy,
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Conventional oil and natural gas infrastructure increases brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) relative abundance and parasitism in mixed-grass prairie [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The rapid expansion of oil and natural gas development across the Northern Great Plains has contributed to habitat fragmentation, which may facilitate brood parasitism of ground-nesting grassland songbird nests by brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater ...
Jacy Bernath-Plaisted +2 more
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Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2022 Interspecific brood or nest parasitism is a relatively common breeding behavior in birds. Through this reproductive tactic, brood-parasites avoid the costs associated with raising and maintaining chicks by laying their eggs in the nests of the host ...
Adrián Barrero +5 more
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Physiological stress responses to non-mimetic model brood parasite eggs: leukocyte 1 profiles and heat-shock protein Hsp70 levels [PDF]
, 2022 This research project was funded by MINECO (research project A-BIO-26-UGR20)Obligate avian brood parasites lay their eggs in the nest of other bird species, known as hosts.
Ruiz Raya, Francisco +9 more
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An Experimental Test of Defenses Against Avian Brood Parasitism in a Recent Host
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Theoretical studies predict that hosts of avian brood parasites should evolve defenses against parasitism in a matter of decades. However, opportunities to test these predictions are limited because brood parasites rarely switch to naïve hosts.
Virginia E. Abernathy +2 more
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Data for: Mimicry cannot explain rejection type in a host-brood parasite system
, 2021 Data belonging to manuscript entitled "Mimicry cannot explain rejection type in a host-brood parasite system".Data were used in two generalized linear mixed models with a binomial error distribution (ejection or desertion)
Šulc, M (via Mendeley Data) +1 more
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Social learning of a brood parasite by its host [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2013 William E Feeney, Naomi E. Langmore
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 Avian brood parasites such as Cuculus cuckoos are recognized to be affected more severely by the adverse effect of climate change owing to close host-parasite relationships.
Seongho Yun, Jin-Won Lee, Jeong-Chil Yoo
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Current Biology, 2013 For many animals, the effort to rear their young is considerable. In birds, this often includes building nests, incubating eggs, feeding the chicks, and protecting them from predators. Perhaps for this reason, about 1% of birds (around 100 species) save themselves the effort and cheat instead. They are obligate brood parasites, laying their eggs in the
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