… contained eggs of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), held in museum egg-collections,
revealed statistically significant correlations between the cuckoo and the host eggs within a …

… This new technique reveals hitherto unnoticed sophistication in egg pattern mimicry. … host
egg pattern are mimicked by the eggs of their respective cuckoo host-races, and that cuckoos …

… of hosts affects the … , host race exploitation creates a conflict between the sexes. We suggest
that the resolution of this conflict in the common cuckoo has resulted in the evolution of egg …

… of Cuckoo egg-laying on a particular day of the host egg-laying stage. However, parasitizing
at the beginning of the host egg-laying cycle may help Cuckoos to avoid intense host nest …

… Common Cuckoo hosts with artificial cuckoo eggs and 3 hosts with artificial or natural
conspecific eggs… We recorded the rejection behavior of the hosts. From the results of these …

… Common Cuckoo eggs in relation to time of parasitism. The horizontal axis shows when the
cuckoo egg … when the first host egg was laid (the onset of laying), 2 = the nest contained two …

… We radiotracked 13 common cuckoo females in the southeastern part of the Czech Republic.
Seven females laid eggs in … We observed 53 nest visits, of which 26 involved egg laying. …

… any of the hosts’ eggs, although the cuckoo normally … cuckoo eggs found inside the host's
nest cup (excluding predation, nest desertion and unclear cases), four (10.3%) out of 39 eggs …

… Our extensive literature search for Cuckoo eggs hatched and chicks raised by hosts … on
Cuckoo chicks and not eggs because the eggs found were typically removed from host nests (for …

… evolution of foreign egg rejection in the … common cuckoo hosts may recognize more eggs
than they reject. This implies that the experience of the host with one or more of its own eggs in …