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Birds respond similarly to taxidermic models and live cuckoos Cuculus canorus [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethology, 2018
International audienceStuffed birds are widely used in research for identifying effects of predators and nest parasites on bird behaviour, studying levels of aggression and the size of territories.
Zbigniew Kwieciński   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

One new species of the genus Sternostoma (Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae) from Cuculus canorus (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae) from Leningrad Province, Russia [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Acarological Society of Japan, 2012
Birds are host to a wide assemblage of parasitic arthropods, including mites (Acari), lice (Phiraptera) and fleas (Siphonaptera). A new species of nasal mite, Sternostoma zini n. sp.
Wayne Knee
exaly   +1 more source
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Cuculus canorus overview

2014
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a non-passerine bird that breeds across western Eurasia. The common cuckoo is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of other species which then raise the cuckoo's offspring.
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Cuculus canorus Linnaeus 1758

Cuculus canorus Conservation status NT Distribution Calabria, southern Italy Notes Code: A 11.
Urso, Salvatore   +6 more
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A comparative study of host selection in the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus

Oecologia, 1999
Certain kinds of hosts are commonly regarded as being more suitable than other for rearing European cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) - insectivores that lay small eggs and have open, shallow nests - although empirical tests of cuckoo host selection are lacking.
Juan José, Soler   +2 more
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Egg mimicry by cuckoos Cuculus canorus in relation to discrimination by hosts

Nature, 1988
Although the cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitizes a variety of hosts, individual females are thought to favour just one species and they lay eggs coloured to match, more or less accurately, those of their particular host1–3. The mechanisms underlying this division of females into strains, or gentes, specializing on different hosts are unknown.
N B Davies, M de L Brooke
exaly   +2 more sources

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