Using 3D printed eggs to examine the egg-rejection behaviour of wild birds

The Value of Artificial Stimuli in Behavioral Research: Making the Case for Egg Rejection Studies in Avian Brood Parasitism

(2015) Márk E. Hauber et al.   ETHOLOGY

The Limits of Artificial Stimuli in Behavioral Research: The Umwelt Gamble

(2015) David C. Lahti   ETHOLOGY

Distinguishing perceptual and conceptual levels of recognition at group boundaries

(2015) Tamra C. Mendelson   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Nest desertion cannot be considered an egg-rejection mechanism in a medium-sized host: an experimental study with the common blackbirdTurdus merula

(2015) Manuel Soler et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Now you see it, now you don't: flushing hosts prior to experimentation can predict their responses to brood parasitism

(2015) Daniel Hanley et al.   Scientific Reports

Rejection of parasitic eggs in passerine hosts: Size matters more for a non-ejecter

(2014) Mélanie F. Guigueno et al.   AUK

Effect of parasite-to-host egg ratio on egg rejection by a Brown-headed Cowbird host

(2014) A. Karlien Lang et al.   AUK

Host responses to interspecific brood parasitism: a by-product of adaptations to conspecific parasitism?

(2014) Peter Samas et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

A simple tool for calculating egg shape, volume and surface area from digital images

(2014) Jolyon Troscianko   IBIS

Variation in host response to brood parasitism reflects evolutionary differences and not phenotypic plasticity

(2013) Michael J. Kuehn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Spectral tuning and perceptual differences do not explain the rejection of brood parasitic eggs by American robins (Turdus migratorius)

(2013) Rebecca Croston et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Weapons or mating signals? Claw shape and mate choice in a fiddler crab

(2013) Sophia Callander et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Asymmetrical signal content of egg shape as predictor of egg rejection by great reed warblers, hosts of the common cuckoo

(2012) Anikó Zölei et al.   BEHAVIOUR

A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry

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

Responses of Reed WarblersAcrocephalus scirpaceusto Non-Mimetic Eggs of Different Sizes in a Nest Parasitism Experiment

(2010) Bård G. Stokke et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Visual cues used by ant-like jumping spiders to distinguish conspecifics from their models

(2010) Ximena J. Nelson   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

The evolution of host-specific variation in cuckoo eggshell strength

(2010) C. N. SPOTTISWOODE   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

(2009) A. Antonov et al.   Biology Letters

Video Recording Reveals the Method of Ejection of Brown-Headed Cowbird Eggs and No Cost in American Robins and Gray Catbirds

(2009) Justin L. Rasmussen et al.   CONDOR