… and luminance contrasts between host and parasitic eggs, and among host eggs. We aimed
to assess how different host and parasitic eggs can be if parasitic eggs are laid at random in …

… Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, and hosts can mitigate the fitness
cost of raising unrelated offspring by rejecting parasitic eggs. A visually-based cognitive …

… occurrence of parasitic eggs in host clutches across the whole host population while
accounting for similar timing of egg laying. Accordingly, we assigned to each cuckoo egg the host …

… to egg images, allowing us to quantify higher-level pattern features on host and foreign eggs.
… pattern features, we build a new model of egg rejection behaviour and evaluate the relative …

… dealing with eggs, I report that visual models were primarily used to study egg recognition
(… in matching their eggs to the proper host egg-type facilitating parasite egg discrimination [86]…

… of a parasitic egg added to the clutch (Table 3). In fact, on average, repeatability was 0.283
(SD = 0.094) lower in the clutches with a simulated parasitic egg than in the real ICC values. …

… the parasite’s egg and their own. A recent study used a continuous range of parasitic egg
colors … more likely to reject browner foreign eggs than foreign eggs that were more blue green, …

… /nest to generate a composite spectra profile for each egg and nest included in our visual
modeling analyses. As a methodological check, we compared the mean achromatic and …

… , we randomly introduced a mimetic or non-mimetic model egg into the nest. We photographed
the Magpie eggs together with the model egg on a gray background and returned them to …

… or deserts eggs laid by parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater), we added model
eggs of … We also reviewed the literature to investigate the effects of model egg surface color (…