Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

AVIAN VISION AND THE EVOLUTION OF EGG COLOR MIMICRY IN THE COMMON CUCKOO

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   EVOLUTION

Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

(2011) N. E. Langmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host

(2011) O. Kruger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The coevolutionary arms race between Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos and Superb Fairy-wrens

(2010) N. E. Langmore et al.   EMU

Attractive non-mimetic stimuli in Cuckoo Cuculus canorus eggs

(2010) FERNANDO ALVAREZ   IBIS

Mangrove Gerygones Gerygone laevigaster eject Little Bronze-cuckoo Chalcites minutillus hatchlings from parasitized nests

(2010) KIHOKO TOKUE et al.   IBIS

The evolution of host-specific variation in cuckoo eggshell strength

(2010) C. N. SPOTTISWOODE   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

(2010) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds

(2010) T. R. Birkhead et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird's eye

(2010) M. C. Stoddard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Study on Parasitism in the Cuckoos.

(2010) F. C. R. Jourdain   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests?

(2009) N.E. Langmore et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cooperative breeding in carrion crows reduces the rate of brood parasitism by great spotted cuckoos

(2009) Daniela Canestrari et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Flexible cuckoo chick-rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren

(2009) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Why do Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis eggs mimic those of their hosts?

(2009) N. E. Langmore et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Evidence for egg discrimination preceding failed rejection attempts in a small cuckoo host

(2009) A. Antonov et al.   Biology Letters

Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism

(2009) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Egg Eviction Imposes a Recoverable Cost of Virulence in Chicks of a Brood Parasite

(2009) Michael G. Anderson et al.   PLoS One

Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism

(2009) N. B. Davies et al.   SCIENCE

Reed warblers discriminate cuckoos from sparrowhawks with graded alarm signals that attract mates and neighbours

(2008) J.A. Welbergen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Does the cuckoo benefit from laying unusually strong eggs?

(2008) Anton Antonov et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Predictors of resistance to brood parasitism within and among reed warbler populations

(2008) Bård G. Stokke et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Experimental support for the use of egg uniformity in parasite egg discrimination by cuckoo hosts

(2008) Csaba Moskát et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

WHY DO PARASITIC CUCKOOS HAVE SMALL BRAINS? INSIGHTS FROM EVOLUTIONARY SEQUENCE ANALYSES

(2008) Martina Boerner et al.   EVOLUTION

SOCIALLY ACQUIRED HOST-SPECIFIC MIMICRY AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST RACES IN HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOOCHALCITES BASALIS

(2008) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   EVOLUTION

Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus and host behaviour at Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus nests

(2008) ARNE MOKSNES et al.   IBIS

The Evolution of Adaptation in Parasitic Cuckoos' Eggs

(2008) E. C. Stuart Baker   IBIS

VOCAL MIMICRY OF THEIR HOSTS BY NESTLINGS OF THE GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO AND STRIPED CRESTED CUCKOO

(2008) P. J. Mundy   IBIS

INFANTICIDE AND OTHER ADAPTIONS OF THE NESTLING STRIPED CUCKOO TAPERA NAEVIA

(2008) EUGENE S. MORTON et al.   IBIS

Eggshell strength in cuckoos and cowbirds

(2008) M. G. BROOKER et al.   IBIS

Proximity of trees facilitates parasitism by Cuckoos Cuculus canorus on Rufous Warblers Cercotrichas galactotes

(2008) Fernando Alvarez   IBIS

Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test

(2008) N.B Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES