Cuckoos use host egg number to choose host nests for parasitism

Nest defense and egg recognition in the grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum): defense against interspecific or conspecific brood parasitism?

(2019) Jinggang Zhang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Great spotted cuckoos show dynamic patterns of host selection during the breeding season. The importance of laying stage and parasitism status of magpie nests

(2019) Manuel Soler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Keeping eggs warm: thermal and developmental advantages for parasitic cuckoos of laying unusually thick-shelled eggs

(2018) Canchao Yang et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Keeping eggs warm: thermal and developmental advantages for parasitic cuckoos of laying unusually thick-shelled eggs

(2018) Canchao Yang et al.   Science of Nature

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

(2018) Laikun Ma et al.   Avian Research

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

When should Common CuckoosCuculus canoruslay their eggs in host nests?

(2016) Nikoletta Geltsch et al.   BIRD STUDY

Numerosity representations in crows obey the Weber–Fechner law

(2016) Helen M. Ditz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Egg-spot matching in common cuckoo parasitism of the oriental reed warbler: effects of host nest availability and egg rejection

(2016) Donglai Li et al.   Avian Research

Multiple mechanisms of egg recognition in a cuckoo host

(2015) Longwu Wang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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?

(2015) Canchao Yang et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Can birds count eggs in their nests?

(2015) Sacha Haywood   IBIS

Neurons selective to the number of visual items in the corvid songbird endbrain

(2015) Helen M. Ditz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Advances in the Study of Coevolution Between Avian Brood Parasites and Their Hosts

(2014) William E. Feeney et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Long-term coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts

(2013) Manuel Soler   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Location of suitable nests by great spotted cuckoos: an empirical and experimental study

(2012) Manuel Soler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Quantity discrimination in jungle crows, Corvus macrorhynchos

(2011) Bezawork Afework Bogale et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

(2011) N.B. Davies   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Pigeons on Par with Primates in Numerical Competence

(2011) D. Scarf et al.   SCIENCE

Do wood ducks use the quantity of eggs in a nest as a cue to the nest’s value?

(2010) Nicole S. Odell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Hierarchical cues in brood parasite nest selection

(2010) Michael A. Patten et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites

(2010) C. Moskat et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds

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

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

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

Experimentally Constrained Virulence is Costly for Common Cuckoo Chicks

(2008) Tomáš Grim et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

(2008) ARNE MOKSNES et al.   IBIS

Adaptive numerical competency in a food-hoarding songbird

(2008) S. Hunt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES