Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats

By David Schmidly. Animal Behaviour, 2000

535 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fa633efdc2f1db9e1239740ee32580088e54a642

Citations in the corpus

• Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning (2011, unknown): “The first, ‘trickery’, has been well studied (Rothstein & Robinson, 1998; Davies, 2000; Krüger, 2007; Kilner & Langmore, 2011).”
• Urban effects on native avifauna: a review (2006, unknown): “Brood parasitism Brood parasitism impacts the fecundity of hosts that accept parasitic eggs of cowbirds, cuckoos, and other obligate interspecific brood parasites ( Davies, 2000).”
• Behaviour of female common cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, in the vicinity of host nests before and during egg laying: a radiotelemetry study (2002, unknown): “Common cuckoos typically lay their eggs in the afternoon, mainly between 1400 hours and dusk (Wyllie 1981; Davies 2000), in contrast to their hosts, which tend to lay in the early morning.”
• Environmental conditions influence egg color of reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus and their parasite, the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus (2006, unknown): “For instance, the duration of sympatry between reed warblers and cuckoos is likely to determine the degree of matching between parasite and host eggs (e.g., Davies 2000; Avilés et al. 2006b).”
• Duets defend mates in a suboscine passerine, the warbling antbird (Hypocnemis cantator) (2006, unknown): “This is despite the fact that duetting occurs in birds with at least as much frequency as cooperative breeding and interspecific brood parasitism (i.e., 3% of species), subjects that, conversely, have been intensively studied for decades (Clutton-Brock, 2003, Davies, 2000).”
• How precise is egg discrimination in weaverbirds (2002, unknown): “For instance, in a species that is subject to interspecific brood parasitism by a cuckoo that mimics host eggs, natural selection is expected to favour more elaborate means of offspring (here egg) discrimination (Payne 1997), such as the comparison of the offspring’s ‘signature information’ with som”
• Habitat structure and the evolution of bird song: a meta-analysis of the evidence for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis (2007, unknown): “song), in order to locate their hosts (Davies 2000; Garamszegi & Avilés 2005).”
• Are blackcaps current winners in the evolutionary struggle against the common cuckoo? (2004, unknown): “A lack of “proper” counteradaptations in hosts can be due to a lag in the origin or spread of such traits (the evolutionary lag hypothesis; Rothstein 1990; Davies 2000), or due to a balance between opposing selection pressures (the evolutionary equilibrium hypothesis; Lotem et al.”
• The evolution of nestling discrimination by hosts of parasitic birds: why is rejection so rare? (2006, unknown): “Such a behaviour may be adaptive in hosts of non-evicting parasites where at least some host chicks survive to fledging despite the competition for food with a parasitic chick (Davies, 2000).”
• Vocal mimicry in songbirds (2008, unknown): “Brood parasites face discrimination by their hosts and are commonly rejected at the egg stage, driving the evolution of visually mimetic eggs (Davies 2000).”
• A review of hypotheses for the functions of avian duetting (2004, unknown): “Farabaugh (1982) reported 222 bird species that duet (at less than 3% of species worldwide, it is about as common as inter-specific brood parasitism or cooperative breeding, Stacey and Koenig 1990; Davies 2000).”