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Rare insights into intraspecific brood parasitism and apparent quasi–parasitism in black–capped chickadees [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2011 Genetic analysis of passerine birds often finds evidence of extra–pair copulations within species, but genetic evidence of intraspecific brood parasitism (IBP) and quasi–parasitism (Q–P) are relatively rare. Further, it is even rarer for genetic patterns
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, 2007 Krüger O, Brooke M de L. Brood parasitism in birds. In: Jamieson BGM, ed. Reproductive biology and phylogeny of Aves.
Krüger, Oliver +2 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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Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?
Journal of Avian BiologyAvian nest design varies depending on environmental factors but may also be influenced by between‐species interactions. In the brood parasitism context, hosts may evolve nest architectures that may limit parasite access to the nest cup, reduce parasite ...
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The coevolutionary biology of brood parasitism: a call for integration. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2019 Obligate brood-parasitic cheats have fascinated natural historians since ancient times. Passing on the costs of parental care to others occurs widely in birds, insects and fish, and often exerts selection pressure on hosts that in turn evolve defences ...
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Personality of hosts and their brood parasites [PDF]
Current Zoology, 2021 AbstractBrood parasites such as the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus exploit the parental abilities of their hosts, hosts avoid brood parasitism and predation by showing specific behavior such as loss of feathers, emission of fear screams and contact calls, displaying wriggle behavior to avoid hosts or potential prey, pecking at hosts and prey, and ...
Møller, Anders Pape, Si, Xingfeng
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Fundamentals of Brood Parasitism
Brood parasitism is a reproductive strategy in which parasitic females secure parental care for their offspring by laying eggs in the nests of other individuals and relying on these unrelated foster parents to rear the parasitic young. Parasitic females may target hosts of their own species (conspecific brood parasitism) or of a different species ...
Soler Cruz, Manuel
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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 ...
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Quintuple parasitism of a great reed warbler nest by common cuckoos
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Multiple parasitism in obligate avian brood parasites occurs when several brood parasitic females lay their eggs in the nest of the same host. While multiple parasitism is common in the highly social, nonevicting cowbird species (Molothrus sp.), in which
Attila Marton
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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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