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Ancient origin and maternal inheritance of blue cuckoo eggs
Nature Communications, 2016 The common cuckoo lays its eggs in nests of a variety of species and their eggs mimic the ones of their hosts. Here, the authors show that blue egg colouration in the common cuckoo is maternally inherited, originated in Asia and then expanded to Europe.
Frode Fossøy +10 more
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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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NAMES OF CUCKOO AND CUCKOO CHICK IN RUSSIAN FOLK LINGUISTICS
, 2020 The research is carried out in the context of ethnolinguistics, which is aimed at analyzing nominations of ecosystem objects as means of presenting relations between language and culture, and in particular, specificity in their perception ...
Vasiliy I. Suprun, Evgenia V. Brysina
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The function of three main call types in common cuckoo [PDF]
Ethology, 2019 AbstractAcoustic signals play a key role in shaping the relationships in birds. Common cuckoosCuculus canorusare known to produce various call types, but the function of these calls has only been studied recently. Here, we used a combination of field recordings (conducted in 2017) and playback experiments (conducted in 2018) to investigate the ...
Canwei Xia +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Background Among potential hosts, the rejection of foreign eggs, which is a common and effective strategy to counter brood parasitism, depends on egg recognition.
Donglai Li +4 more
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An Objective-Based Design Approach of Retaining Walls Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm
, 2020 In the past two decades, there has been ongoing trend to design retaining walls in an optimal way rather than the conventional trial and-error approach. In this study, reinforced concrete cantilever retaining wall is optimized using the Cuckoo Search (CS)
Ghalandari, Taher +5 more
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Does experimentally simulated presence of a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) affect egg rejection and breeding success in the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)? [PDF]
, 2021 Providing artificial eggs is a commonly used technique to understand brood parasitism, mainly by the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). However, the presence of a cuckoo egg in the host nest would also require an earlier physical presence of the common ...
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Predicting spatial patterns of Cuculus canorus under climate change in Türkiye
Turkish Journal of ForestryClimate change is reshaping species distributions worldwide, with migratory birds representing one of the most vulnerable groups in this process. The Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), a species of high ecological importance, is widely distributed across ...
Emrah Ertuğrul +2 more
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Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl +6 more
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, 2023 In this work, I tested the reaction of the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) against a nest parasite, the common cuckoo (Common cuckoo) (grey form), predator, Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and harmless intruder, turtle dove (Streptopelia ...
KRAUSOVÁ, Ladislava
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