… reveals hitherto unnoticed sophistication in egg pattern mimicry. We show that various
features of host egg pattern are mimicked by the eggs of their respective cuckoo host-races, and …

… host evolution, then parasitic eggs should be a better phenotypic match to host eggs from the
same time period than to host eggs … historical host eggs to current-day parasites that hosts …

… bird's eye. The cuckoo finch Anomalospiza imberbis and its hosts show spectacular
polymorphisms in egg … used by hosts in making rejection decisions. We found that disparity …

… retinal functioning and that account for nest luminosity and bird sensitivity to estimate … day
when the first host egg was laid, because cuckoos in our population parasitize host nests most …

… modeling of bird vision to quantify egg background and spot color mimicry in the common
cuckoo and 11 of its principal hosts, and we relate this to egg rejection by different hosts. …

… and host egg appearance to determine from a bird's visual perspective if 1) koels exhibit …
To determine if host egg size could predict koel egg size, we ran two linear models (LMs). The …

… 2 software [49] to calculate a bird's ability to distinguish between cuckoo and host egg
coloration, measured as the quantum catch for each photoreceptor; four cones responsible for …

… datasets regarding egg rejection rates [12] and eye size … We use absolute eye size (AES)
as a proxy metric of a bird's … on egg background colour and spot pattern mimicry for 10 host …

… In birds with laterally placed eyes, the eyes are often so large that they nearly touch at the
midline of the skull. If we had eyes of proportional volume… The shapes of bird eyes vary widely? …

… of the bird's own egg by dying one, more, or all eggs in the same … ) hosts rely on both color
differences between eggs and … can we manipulate egg colors when birds themselves may be …