High begging intensity of great spotted cuckoo nestlings favours larger-size crow nest mates

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

A Long-Term Experimental Study Demonstrates the Costs of Begging That Were Not Found over the Short Term

(2014) Manuel Soler et al.   PLoS One

From Parasitism to Mutualism: Unexpected Interactions Between a Cuckoo and Its Host

(2014) D. Canestrari et al.   SCIENCE

Brood mate eviction or brood mate acceptance by brood parasitic nestlings? An experimental study with the non-evictor great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host

(2013) Manuel Soler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Long-term coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts

(2013) Manuel Soler   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The vocal begging display of Great Spotted CuckooClamator glandariusnestlings in nests of its two main host species: genetic differences or developmental plasticity?

(2013) María Roldán et al.   IBIS

Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2013) W. E. Feeney et al.   SCIENCE

Great Spotted Cuckoo Nestlings but not Magpie Nestlings Starve in Experimental Age-Matched Broods

(2012) Manuel Soler et al.   ETHOLOGY

Do great spotted cuckoo nestlings beg dishonestly?

(2011) Manuel Soler et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The economics of nestmate killing in avian brood parasites: a provisions trade-off

(2011) Ros Gloag et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Parental-care parasitism: how do unrelated offspring attain acceptance by foster parents?

(2011) M. Roldan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

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

A stab in the dark: chick killing by brood parasitic honeyguides

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   Biology Letters

Begging at high level simultaneously impairs growth and immune response in southern shrike (Lanius meridionalis) nestlings

(2011) G. MORENO-RUEDA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Helpers at the nest compensate for reduced maternal investment in egg size in carrion crows

(2011) D. CANESTRARI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

(2011) N.B. Davies   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host

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

On the oxidative cost of begging: antioxidants enhance vocalizations in gull chicks

(2010) José C. Noguera et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Post-ejection nest-desertion of common cuckoo hosts: a second defense mechanism or avoiding reduced reproductive success?

(2010) Csaba Moskát et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Signalling of Nutritional Need by Magpie Nestlings

(2010) Tomás Redondo et al.   ETHOLOGY

Lazy group members are substitute helpers in carrion crows

(2010) V. Baglione et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2009) Daniela Canestrari et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brown-headed cowbird nestlings influence nestmate begging, but not parental feeding, in hosts of three distinct sizes

(2009) James W. Rivers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

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

Begging and cowbirds: brood parasites make hosts scream louder

(2008) G. Boncoraglio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Reproductive success increases with group size in cooperative carrion crows, Corvus corone corone

(2007) Daniela Canestrari et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR