Different recognition cues reveal the decision rules used for egg rejection by hosts of a variably mimetic avian brood parasite

Differences in morphology and colour pattern of shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) eggs found in nests of two hosts

(2011) M. ALICIA DE LA COLINA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes

(2011) Rebecca M. Kilner et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Do Nest Light Conditions Affect Rejection of Parasitic Eggs? A Test of the Light Environment Hypothesis

(2011) Marcel Honza et al.   ETHOLOGY

Repeatability of Foreign Egg Rejection: Testing the Assumptions of Co-Evolutionary Theory

(2011) Peter Samaš et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   EVOLUTION

Constraints on host choice: why do parasitic birds rarely exploit some common potential hosts?

(2011) Tomáš Grim et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A sum of its individual parts? Relative contributions of different eggshell regions to intraclutch variation in birds

(2011) Lenka Polačiková et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

(2011) N.B. Davies   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host

(2011) R. Gloag et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hosts’ Responses to Parasitic Eggs: Which Cues Elicit Hosts’ Egg Discrimination?

(2010) Csaba Moskát et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

(2010) KIHOKO TOKUE et al.   IBIS

Blunt egg pole holds cues for alien egg discrimination: experimental evidence

(2010) L. Polačiková et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

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

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

Egg-spot pattern rather than egg colour affects conspecific egg rejection in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

(2009) M. Dolores G. López-de-Hierro et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Host behaviour and nest-site characteristics affect the likelihood of brood parasitism by shiny cowbirds on chalk-browed mockingbirds

(2009) Vanina Fiorini et al.   BEHAVIOUR

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

(2009) A. Antonov et al.   Biology Letters

Fixed Rejection Responses to Single and Multiple Experimental Parasitism in TwoFringillaHosts of the Common Cuckoo

(2009) Johan R. Vikan et al.   ETHOLOGY

Avian colour perception predicts behavioural responses to experimental brood parasitism in chaffinches

(2009) J. M. AVILÉS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Context-dependent utility overrides absolute memory as a determinant of choice

(2009) L. Pompilio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eggshell spotting in brood parasitic shiny cowbirds (Molothrus bonariensis) is not linked to the female sex chromosome

(2008) Bettina Mahler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The modelling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours

(2008) P. Cassey et al.   Biology Letters

Evolutionary Biology: Arms Races in the Eye of the Beholder

(2008) Rebecca J. Safran et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reproductive biology of the European Cuckoo Cuculus canorus: early insights, persistent errors and the acquisition of knowledge

(2008) Karl Schulze-Hagen et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Experimental reduction of ultraviolet wavelengths reflected from parasitic eggs affects rejection behaviour in the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

(2008) M. Honza et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY