Migration behavior and performance of the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius).
PLoS ONE, 2019 The study of brood parasitism has traditionally been focused on the breeding period, but recent evidence suggests that it urgently needs a new spatio-temporal perspective to explore novel avenues on brood parasite-host co-evolutionary interactions.
Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo +3 more
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Adaptations for Brood Parasitism in Cuculus Cuckoos
Journal of Reproduction and Development, 1995 Brood parasitism is a breeding habit of birds, in which eggs are laid into the nests of other birds. Cuculus cuckoos, representative of such brood parasites, visit the laying nests of hosts, and remove one egg from the nest before laying their own egg. A particular female cuckoo lays one egg in one nest.
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Australian cuckoos and their adaptations for brood parasitism [PDF]
Chinese Birds, 2013 The strategies used by parasitic cuckoos to fool their hosts have intrigued naturalists and ornithologists for centuries. Here I review some of the tricks used by Australian parasitic cuckoos to increase host nest availability, access host nests, and fool their hosts into accepting their eggs and chicks.
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Survey for least bell's vireo in riparian habitat on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California [PDF]
The least bell's vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus) was listed in 1986 as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Because of the possibility of the species existing on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), this survey was conducted to ...
Breininger, David R.
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Macroevolutionary outcomes of coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts
Almost one hundred bird species in the world are known to be obligate interspecific brood parasites. These lay their eggs in the nests of other species, their hosts, which take care of a usually larger parasitic chick.
Medina-Guzman, Iliana
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Host-brood parasite community changes across an edge-interior gradient in a tropical rainforest at Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Malaysia. [PDF]
, 2009 Although host species generally face increased risk of brood parasitism in fragmented temperate landscapes and forest edge, little information exists to assess such risks in tropical birds.
Hossein Varasteh, Moradi +1 more
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Coloración y tamaño de los huevos de urraca (pica pica) en relación con la parasitación con el críalo (Clamator glandarius) [PDF]
, 2016 Premio extraordinario de Trabajo Fin de Máster curso 2013-2014. Etología.El estudio del parasitismo de incubación, en el marco de la hipótesis de la "carrera de armamentos", ha mostrado evidencias de procesos coevolutivos entre hospedador y parásito.
Hita Sánchez, Alejandro
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Nidificación del Chinchero Escamado (Lepidocolaptes falcinellus) [PDF]
, 2011 We provide the first description of the nest of the Scalloped Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes falcinellus), its clutch size, nestlings, and nesting behavior from prospecting to fledging, based on 102 h of observation at a nest in the subtropical Atlantic ...
Bodrati, Alejandro +1 more
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Do cuckoo calls affects red-backed shrike settlement pattern? An experimental approach
The European Zoological JournalBirds select breeding territories by assessing territory quality and considering predation pressure. However, in many small passerines, brood parasitism may also play an important role in territory occupancy.
P. Tryjanowski +7 more
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The Descent of Preferences [PDF]
[A slightly revised version of this paper has been accepted by the BJPS] More attention has been devoted to providing evolutionary scenarios accounting for the development of beliefs, or belief-like states, than for desires or preferences.
Spurrett, David
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