Hawk mimicry does not reduce attacks of cuckoos by highly aggressive hosts

Russet Sparrows spot alien chicks from their nests

(2018) Juan Huo et al.   Avian Research

Costs of breeding far away from neighbors: Isolated host nests are more vulnerable to cuckoo parasitism

(2018) Laikun Ma et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Alarm call-based discrimination between common cuckoo and Eurasian sparrowhawk in a Chinese population of great tits

(2017) Jiangping Yu et al.   ETHOLOGY

Crafty cuckoo calls

(2017) Wei Liang   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Female cuckoo calls misdirect host defences towards the wrong enemy

(2017) Jenny E. York et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Egg recognition as antiparasitism defence in hosts does not select for laying of matching eggs in parasitic cuckoos

(2016) Canchao Yang et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Explaining variation in brood parasitism rates between potential host species with similar habitat requirements

(2016) Donglai Li et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive

(2016) Rose Thorogood et al.   Scientific Reports

Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) differentiate between common cuckoo and sparrowhawk in China: alarm calls convey information on threat

(2015) Jiangping Yu et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Oriental reed warbler ( Acrocephalus orientalis) nest defence behaviour towards brood parasites and nest predators

(2015) Donglai Li et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Evidence for aggressive mimicry in an adult brood parasitic bird, and generalized defences in its host

(2015) W. E. Feeney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intra-individual variability in fecal cortisol metabolites varies with lifetime exploration and reproductive life history in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)

(2014) P.-O. Montiglio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Hawk mimicry in cuckoos and anti-parasitic aggressive behavior of barn swallows in Denmark and China

(2014) Wei Liang et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Long-term coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts

(2013) Manuel Soler   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Social learning of a brood parasite by its host

(2013) W. E. Feeney et al.   Biology Letters

REED WARBLER HOSTS FINE-TUNE THEIR DEFENSES TO TRACK THREE DECADES OF CUCKOO DECLINE

(2013) Rose Thorogood et al.   EVOLUTION

The frontline of avian brood parasite–host coevolution

(2012) William E. Feeney et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Uncovering Dangerous Cheats: How Do Avian Hosts Recognize Adult Brood Parasites?

(2012) Alfréd Trnka et al.   PLoS One

Cuckoos Combat Socially Transmitted Defenses of Reed Warbler Hosts with a Plumage Polymorphism

(2012) R. Thorogood et al.   SCIENCE

Linking anti-predator behaviour and habitat quality: group effect in nest defence of a passerine bird

(2011) Tatjana Krama et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

The effectiveness of hawk mimicry in protecting cuckoos from aggressive hosts

(2011) Alfréd Trnka et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts

(2011) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Polygynous great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus suffer more cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism than monogamous pairs

(2011) Alfréd Trnka et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

(2011) N.B. Davies   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   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

Enemy Recognition of Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus): Threats and Reproductive Value Act Independently in Nest Defence Modulation

(2010) Daniela Campobello et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

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

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

Evicting cuckoo nestlings from the nest: a new anti-parasitism behaviour

(2009) N. J. Sato 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

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

Group effect in nest defence behaviour of breeding pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca

(2008) Indrikis Krams et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Do Hosts Discriminate between Sexually Dichromatic Male and Female Brown-headed Cowbirds?

(2008) Sharon A. Gill et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

(2008) ARNE MOKSNES et al.   IBIS

Responses of breeding Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus to mounts of Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, Cuckoo Cuculus canorus and Jay Garrulus glandarius

(2008) J. W. DUCKWORTH   IBIS

Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test

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