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Egg eviction imposes a recoverable cost of virulence in chicks of a brood parasite. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BackgroundChicks of virulent brood parasitic birds eliminate their nestmates and avoid costly competition for foster parental care. Yet, efforts to evict nest contents by the blind and naked common cuckoo Cuculus canorus hatchling are counterintuitive as
Michael G Anderson, Csaba Moskát, Miklós Bán, Tomás Grim, Phillip Cassey, Mark E Hauber   +5 more
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Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive. [PDF]

, 2016
Individuals often vary defences in response to local predation or parasitism risk. But how should they assess threat levels when it pays their enemies to hide? For common cuckoo hosts, assessing parasitism risk is challenging: cuckoo eggs are mimetic and
Davies, Nicholas B, Thorogood, Rose
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Precisely targeting host activity for parasitism by Common Cuckoos

Avian Research
The evolution of parasitic strategies through tracking host life-history patterns represents a key adaptive trait in avian brood parasites. However, when hosts successfully exploit human-modified environments—such as diverse and concealed nesting sites ...
Guo Zhong, Guixia Wan, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang   +3 more
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Evidence for West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus Infections in Wild and Resident Birds in Germany, 2017 and 2018 [PDF]

, 2019
Wild birds play an important role as reservoir hosts and vectors for zoonotic arboviruses and foster their spread. Usutu virus (USUV) has been circulating endemically in Germany since 2011, while West Nile virus (WNV) was first diagnosed in several bird ...
Eiden, Martin, Fast, Christine, Fischer, Dominik, Groschup, Martin H., Keller, Markus, Korbel, Rüdiger, Lierz, Michael, Lühken, Renke, Michel, Friederike, Müller, Kerstin, Reuschel, Maximilian, Rinder, Monika, Schmidt, Volker, Schmoock, Martina, Schwehn, Rebekka, Sieg, Michael, Urbaniak, Sylvia, Vahlenkamp, Thomas W., Wysocki, Patrick, Ziegler, Ute   +19 more
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PEP725: 15 years of driving European and global phenology science

New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 2, Page 717-734, April 2026.
Summary Phenology – the timing of seasonal biological events – is a sensitive indicator of climate change and ecosystem dynamics. Long‐term, broad‐scale phenological data are crucial for understanding and predicting plant responses to environmental change.
Barbara Templ, Helfried Scheifinger, Isabella Ostovary, Markus Ungersböck, Hans Ressl   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Value of Artificial Stimuli in Behavioral Research: Making the Case for Egg Rejection Studies in Avian Brood Parasitism [PDF]

, 2015
Experimentation is at the heart of classical and modern behavioral ecology research. The manipulation of natural cues allows us to establish causation between aspects of the environment, both internal and external to organisms, and their effects on ...
Antonov, Avilés, Avilés, Avilés, Bán, Bártol, Cassey, Cassey, Colina, Croston, Davies, Davies, Ferrari, Friedmann, Grim, Grim, Grim, Guigueno, Hauber, Honza, Igic, Klippenstine, Lahti, Lotem, Moreno, Moskát, Moskát, Rothstein, Rutila, Rutila, Safran, Samaš, Samaš, Spottiswoode, Spottiswoode, Stevens, Stevens, Stoddard, Stoddard, Taborsky, Tibbetts, Tinbergen, Tinbergen, Tinbergen, Weidinger   +44 more
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Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long‐lived bird of prey

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 3, Page 470-481, March 2026.
A unique long‐term dataset has allowed this study of an important habitat selection mechanism, habitat imprinting, in a species which is typically extremely challenging to study. It gives us better understanding of the role of early experience in selection of breeding sites in long‐lived species with high breeding site fidelity.
Ida Penttinen, Carina Nebel, Toni Laaksonen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coevolution in action: disruptive selection on egg colour in an avian brood parasite and its host. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Trait polymorphism can evolve as a consequence of frequency-dependent selection. Coevolutionary interactions between hosts and parasites may lead to selection on both to evolve extreme phenotypes deviating from the norm, through disruptive selection.Here,
Canchao Yang, Wei Liang, Yan Cai, Suhua Shi, Fugo Takasu, Anders P Møller, Anton Antonov, Frode Fossøy, Arne Moksnes, Eivin Røskaft, Bård G Stokke   +10 more
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Eviction behaviour of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus chicks

Journal of Avian Biology, 2007
We studied the eviction behaviour of common cuckoo Cuculus canorus chicks by video recording at nests of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus and reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus .
Marcel Honza, Katerina Vošlajerová, Csaba Moskát   +2 more
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The effect of Common Cuckoo parasitism on the annual productivity of a host population

Avian Research
Avian interspecific brood parasitism is an excellent system for studying coevolutionary processes in nature because brood parasites directly affect host reproductive success.
Alfréd Trnka
doaj   +1 more source