… nests, cuckoos evolved better egg color and pattern mimicry. … cuckoo females have not evolved
egg size or shape mimicry. … we see little support for the hypothesis that pallid cuckoo host-…

… when we observed it directly or when the cuckoo egg disappeared from the … cuckoo and
host eggs are so similar in pattern and egg size that GRWs cannot use these cues during egg …

… improvement in cuckoo egg mimicry to host egg phenotypes in a host–… over time, the host to
escape cuckoo mimicry, with the … egg regions (see Results), we therefore considered the egg …

… mimicry in shape or size between cuckoo and host eggs, we used … egg mimicry in these
cuckoos, and that colour, pattern, size … shape similarity in different gentes of the common cuckoo (…

… Here, we compared egg pattern components of cuckoo-host egg mimicry at four stages over
a … seen through a bird's eye. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological 589 …

… of over 125 different host species and faithfully mimic the egg patterns of some of its common
hosts, … were found to show the highest mimicry to those of ORW and BW in terms of the hue …

… We discuss how egg mimicry, the resemblance of parasite eggs to host eggs in colour, spotting
pattern, shape and size, varies … Common cuckoo females are host specific and often lay …

… The Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus is one of the best … of egg mimicry between cuckoo
and host eggs. The details of our … , as seen through a bird’s eye. Proc R Soc B-Bio 277: 1387–…

… quantitative measures of egg colour and pattern, from models … collected suspected cuckoo
eggs from their host nests and … by a common cuckoo Cuculus canorus (larger egg; top right). …

… We show, using a combination of image analysis, field … (1) egg colour and pattern mimicry
of fork-tailed drongo eggs by … with hosts of the closely related common cuckoo, which show …