… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… We additionally extracted previously published data on egg background colour and spot
pattern mimicry for 10 host species of the obligate brood parasitic Common cuckoo (Cuculus …

… is no mimicry of the great spotted cuckoo eggs towards the host [… To measure egg pattern,
we used digital photos of eggs. In … We sometimes observed damaged host eggs in parasitized …

… observed in the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the
nests of other species, namely the host, … In contrast, the cuckoos show a reverse pattern with …

… of egg size on egg recognition while controlling for egg mimicry, we used 2 sizes of model
eggs whose color and pattern mimic the eggs … to common cuckoo Cuculus canorus model egg …