Does a cuckoo know it's a cuckoo? The answer is more difficult than you might think, explains Richard Pallardy ...
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5 Birds that lay eggs in other birds nests
Perhaps the most famous nest hijacker in the bird world, the common cuckoo has even given rise to the phrase “cuckooing.” A female cuckoo carefully watches her host bird, usually small songbirds like ...
A George Mason University (GMU) biologist proposed an alternate theory of how the common cuckoo bird mimics other birds’ egg ...
European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation. Bright blue, white, greenish, ...
Female lineages of European cuckoos lay eggs with colorful shells and intricate patterns specialized to deceive more than 100 avian hosts into fostering their chicks. Parasitic cuckoo eggshells show ...
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