Case Report of Plastic String Entanglement Mortality in a Breeding Oriental Reed Warbler
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.Plastic production and use have increased markedly, concomitantly with rapid urbanization and development. Whereas birds and other animals use them as nesting materials, they pose toxicity and entanglement risks, potentially affecting survival and reproduction.
Haijie Zhang +5 more
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Random egg laying in host nests, rather than egg-matching, explains patterns of cuckoo parasitism: a comment on Zhang et al. (2023). [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Wang L, Liang W.
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Reduced parasitism by retaliatory cuckoos selects for hosts that rear cuckoo nestlings [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 1998 We present a model to investigate why some bird species rear the nestlings of brood parasites in spite of suffering large reductions in their own immediate fitness. Of particular interest is the case in which hosts rear only the parasite's young, all of their own offspring having been ejected or destroyed by the parasite.
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Defense behavior of two closely related but geographically distant host species against cuckoo parasitism: A next test for the parallel coevolution. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Trnka A, Ma L, Yan H, Wang L, Liang W.
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XXI.—The Evolution of Adaptation in Parasitic Cuckoos' Eggs
Ibis, 1913 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Video evidence that cuckoos farm their hosts by ejecting nestlings
Ecology and EvolutionWhen host nests are scarce, avian brood parasites would benefit from behaviours that increase the availability of suitable nests. Several studies reported ejection of host nestlings from nests by brood parasites; however, whether brood parasites do so to
Jinggang Zhang +4 more
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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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Reactions of wintering passerines to male calls of the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus
Scientific ReportsThe reaction of birds to the nest parasite, the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus, has been the subject of extensive testing in various aspects. However, while the cuckoo is a long-distance migrant, some of its hosts are sedentary species.
Piotr Tryjanowski +3 more
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Further Data on African Parasitic Cuckoos
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1956 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Communications BiologyAdaptations are driven by specific natural selection pressures throughout biological evolution. However, these cannot inherently align with future shifts in selection dynamics, thus manifesting in opposing directions.
Canchao Yang, Ziqi Zhang
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