Egg arrangement in avian clutches covaries with the rejection of foreign eggs

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

(2012) M. Alicia de la Colina et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

How avian incubation behaviour influences egg surface temperatures: relationships with egg position, development and clutch size

(2012) Rebecca L. Boulton et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Peter Samaš et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

Tits use amodal completion in predator recognition: a field experiment

(2010) Kateřina Tvardíková et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The role of blunt egg pole characteristics for recognition of eggs in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos)

(2010) Lenka Polačiková et al.   BEHAVIOUR

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

The cost of virulence: an experimental study of egg eviction by brood parasitic chicks

(2009) Tomáš Grim 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