Various Gallus varius hybrids: variation in junglefowl hybrids and Darwin's interest in them [PDF]
, 2020 Hybrids between Green Junglefowl Gallus varius and domestic fowl G. gallus domesticus confused several 19th-century ornithologists. The plumage of these hybrids is so unlike the colours and patterns of either of the parent species that they were ...
Dekkers, W, van Grouw, Hein
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Individually distinctive vocalization in Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) [PDF]
Journal of Ornithology, 2016 Distinctive individual vocalizations are advantageous in several social contexts. Both genetic and environmental effects are responsible for this phenomenon resulting in different frequencies and time domains of sounds in birds. This individuality can be utilized in breeding bird censuses and abundance estimates.
Sándor Zsebők +2 more
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Rufous Common Cuckoo chicks are not always female [PDF]
Journal of Ornithology, 2018 The Common Cuckoo (hereafter Cuckoo) shows two adult plumage morphs—adult male plumage is grey and adult females are either grey or, less frequently, rufous. The situation is less clear in juveniles, as both sexes exhibit variable proportions of grey and rufous colour.
Jaroslav Koleček +6 more
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Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo
Animal Behaviour, 2021 Understanding egg-laying behaviour of brood parasites in space and time can improve our knowledge of interactions between hosts and parasites. However, no studies have combined information on the laying activity of an obligate brood parasite with detailed information on the distribution of host nests within an area and time period.
Jaroslav Koleček +12 more
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Potential cuckoo hosts have similar egg rejection rates to parasitized host species
Avian Research, 2020 Background Thrush species are rarely parasitized by cuckoos, but many have a strong egg recognition ability. To date, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between host egg rejection and cuckoo parasitism rate.
Tingting Yi, Yue-Hua Sun, Wei Liang
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Linking individual attributes and host specialization in brood parasitic cuckoos
Avian Research, 2022 Generalist avian brood parasites vary considerably in their degree of host specialization (e.g., number of hosts); some parasitize the nests of just a few host species, whereas others exploit more than 100 species.
Sue-Jeong Jin +4 more
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A game-theoretic model of interspecific brood parasitism with sequential decisions [PDF]
, 2008 The interaction between hosts and parasites in bird populations has been studied extensively. This paper uses game-theoretic methods to model this interaction.
Banks +40 more
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First-Time Migration in Juvenile Common Cuckoos Documented by Satellite Tracking [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2016 Being an obligate parasite, juvenile common cuckoos Cuculus canorus are thought to reach their African wintering grounds from Palearctic breeding grounds without guidance from experienced conspecifics but this has not been documented. We used satellite tracking to study naïve migrating common cuckoos.
Marta Lomas Vega +10 more
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Loudly sing cuckoo : More-than-human seasonalities in Britain [PDF]
, 2017 This research was funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, grant number AH/E009573/1.Peer ...
Andrew Whitehouse +17 more
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Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) affect the bacterial diversity of the eggshells of their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is an avian brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species, where these hosts incubate the parasitic eggs, feed and rear the nestlings.
Nikoletta Geltsch +4 more
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