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Cuckoo host use

, 2023
   The breeding success of brood parasites relies on the host’s ability to raise their offspring. Brood parasites might cue on host phenotypes to parasitize high-quality individuals to maximize the likelihood of their offspring fledging.
Angela Moreras (12024272)
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Egg Spots Are Important Cues for Egg Recognition in Barn Swallows

Ecology and Evolution
Egg recognition is one of the most common strategies utilized by host birds to combat brood parasitism. Eggshell surface features (e.g., eggshell color and spots) are important cues for host egg recognition, enabling avian hosts to recognize and reject ...
Kui Yan, Jinmei Liu, Kangning Luo, Wei Liang   +3 more
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Climate change is associated with asynchrony in arrival between two sympatric cuckoos and both host arrival and prey emergence

Royal Society Open Science
Matching the timing of spring arrival to the breeding grounds with hosts and prey is crucial for migratory brood parasites such as cuckoos. Previous studies have focused mostly on phenological mismatch between a single cuckoo species and its hosts but ...
Peter Mikula, Oleg V. Askeyev, Arthur O. Askeyev, Igor V. Askeyev, Federico Morelli, Annette Menzel, Piotr Tryjanowski   +6 more
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Reaction to the red-backed shrike \kur{(Lanius collurio)} to the presence of the common cuckoo\kur{ (Cuculus canorus)}

, 2021
In this work, I tested the reaction of the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) against a nest parasite, the common cuckoo (Common cuckoo) (grey and rusty forms), predator, Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and harmless intruder, turtle dove ...
KRAUSOVÁ, Ladislava
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Spring arrival of the common cuckoo at breeding grounds is strongly determined by environmental conditions in tropical Africa. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2023
Davies JG, Kirkland M, Miller MGR, Pearce-Higgins JW, Atkinson PW, Hewson CM.   +5 more
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The role of reed management and habitat quality on brood parasitism and chick survival of the brood parasitic Common Cuckoo. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2023
Mérő TO, Žuljević A, Lengyel S.
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Associations between diet and the gut microbiome in brood-parasitic nestlings: Common Cuckoos reared by three host species

Avian Research
The gut microbiome is crucial for growth, nutrient acquisition, and health. Multiple factors shape its composition and function, and diet is consistently identified as a key environmental driver.
Li Zhang, Jiangping Yu, Xinyi Yuan, Guo Zhong, Laikun Ma, Longru Jin, Wei Liang, Haitao Wang   +7 more
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Recurrence, fidelity and proximity to previously visited sites throughout the annual cycle in a trans‐Saharan migrant, the common cuckoo

Journal of Avian Biology
Most migratory birds return every year to the same breeding sites and some species show a similarly high fidelity to wintering grounds as well. Fidelity to stopover sites during migration has been much less studied and is usually found to be lower. Here,
Carlotta Bonaldi, Yannis Vardanis, Mikkel Willemoes, Chris M. Hewson, Philip W. Atkinson, Jan‐Åke Nilsson, Raymond H. G. Klaassen, Roine Strandberg, Anders P. Tøttrup, Paul W. Howey, Thomas Alerstam, Kasper Thorup   +11 more
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Egg rejection and clutch phenotype variation in the plain prinia Prinia inornata

Journal of Avian Biology, 2016
Avian hosts of brood parasites can evolve anti‐parasitic defenses to recognize and reject foreign eggs from their nests. Theory predicts that higher inter‐clutch and lower intra‐clutch variation in egg appearance facilitates hosts to detect parasitic ...
Longwu Wang, Wei Liang, Canchao Yang, Shun‐Jen Cheng, Yu‐Cheng Hsu, Xin Lu   +5 more
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Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) versus common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus): An example of ineffective cuckoo-hawk mimicry. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2022
Krausová L, Veselý P, Syrová M, Antonová K, Fišer O, Chlumská V, Pátková M, Pužej Š, Fuchs R.   +8 more
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