The relationships between avian brood parasites and their hosts are widely recognised as
model systems for studying coevolution. However, while most brood parasites are known to …

Common cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, are brood parasites: they lay their eggs in the nests of
other bird species, and let these hosts incubate their eggs and feed and rear the nestlings …

To maximize their offspring success common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) females should lay
their eggs into host nests before incubation has begun. This ensures that the parasite chick …

Egg rejection is an effective and widespread antiparasitic defense to eliminate foreign eggs
from the nests of hosts of brood parasitic birds. Several lines of observational and critical …

The two-note call of the male common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), the so-called “cu-coo”, is
well known to people as a natural and cultural signal. However, the so-called “bubbling” call …

In some populations of the host of brood parasites, more than two parasite eggs may be laid
in a single nest. This phenomenon is known as multiple parasitism, representing a cost to …

The phenomenon of cuckoos' brood parasitism is well known and can be investigated using
applied mathematical techniques. Among adaptive features of this phenomenon are certain …

Background Nest parasitism by cuckoos (Cuculus spp.) results in enormous reproductive
failure and forces hosts to evolve antiparasitic strategies, ie, recognition of own eggs and …

There is very little information on the diurnal and seasonal patterns of Cuculidae species'
calling activity in subtropical areas. In this study, we used passive acoustic monitoring to …

Obligate brood parasitic birds have evolved a rare avian strategy for reproduction by laying
eggs in the nests of other species. In doing so, their breeding ranges, but not necessarily …