Naïve hosts of avian brood parasites accept foreign eggs, whereas older hosts fine-tune foreign egg discrimination during laying [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Many potential hosts of social parasites recognize and reject foreign intruders, and reduce or altogether escape the negative impacts of parasitism.
Csaba Moskát +2 more
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Common Cuckoo Nestling Adapts Its Begging Behavior to the Alarm Signaling System of a Host
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Cuckoo nestlings thrive as avian brood parasites. To acquire sufficient food from the host parents, cuckoo nestlings generally make louder begging calls than host nestlings, but this may cause them to be more likely to attract the attention of predators.
Jiaojiao Wang +5 more
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Nocturnal migratory flight initiation in reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus : effect of wind on orientation and timing of migration [PDF]
Journal of Avian Biology, 2002 We used radio‐telemetry to study autumn migratory flight initiation and orientation in relation to wind and air pressure in a nocturnal passerine migrant, the reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus at Falsterbo, southwest Sweden.
Åkesson, Susanne +3 more
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Italian Ornithological Commission (COI) - Report 31
Avocetta, 2023 Italian Ornithological Commission (COI) - Report 31. This report refers to records from January 1st 2022 to December 31st 2022, with the addition of a number of records from previous years that were submitted more recently. For each species, the records
Egidio Fulco, Cristiano Liuzzi
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Egg-spot matching in common cuckoo parasitism of the oriental reed warbler: effects of host nest availability and egg rejection [PDF]
Avian Research, 2016 The success of cuckoo parasitism is thought to depend largely on the extent of egg matching between cuckoo and host eggs, since poor-matching cuckoo egg would lead to more frequent egg rejection by the host. In this study, we investigated how egg-spot matching between the Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) and its host, the Oriental Reed Warbler ...
Li, Donglai +5 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 Human disturbance is caused by the anthropogenic activities in the environment. While human threat to wildlife is considered to be complex (nonlethal recreations and lethal hunting activities).
Chao Shen +5 more
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Do common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) possess an optimal laying behaviour to match their own egg phenotype to that of their Oriental reed warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis) hosts? [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015 Received 20 June 2015; revised 6 August 2015; accepted for publication 7 August 2015Optimality theory suggests that parasitic cuckoos should evolve an optimal laying behaviour aiming to positivelyselect host nests in which the eggs match the phenotype of their own eggs, thus minimizing the rejection riskfrom hosts and, in turn, maximizing the cuckoos ...
Canchao Yang +3 more
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Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three-Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study explores population divergence and hybridization dynamics across the golden‐backed (Dinopium benghalense) and red‐backed (D. psarodes) flameback woodpecker hybrid zone in Sri Lanka. The genomic analysis uncovers three‐way hybridization among two D. benghalense populations in the north and one island‐endemic D.
Ranasinghe RW, Seneviratne SS, Irwin D.
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Market surveys in Mataram, Lombok, illustrate the expanse of legal and illegal Indonesian bird trade networks [PDF]
, 2022 Bird keeping is deeply rooted in Indonesian culture and markets selling large numbers of birds are found across the country. We examined bird markets in Mataram on the island of Lombok. Across five market visits, 10,326 birds of 108 species were observed,
Damianou, Evros +4 more
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Dawn singing behavior of a tropical bird species, the Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata [PDF]
, 2012 This paper aims to study the structure and pattern of dawn song in a tropical avian species, the Pied Bush Chat (Saxicola caprata) in Haridwar (290 55’ N, 780 08’ E; Uttarakhand, India) in 2009.
Bhatt, Dinesh +2 more
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