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IT is not a coo. It is more like a wooooooooh. Or a wruuuuuuuuuh. Repeated over and over and over again in a mind-numbing monotone about as pleasant as a snore. The sound oozes effortlessly ...

The most studied brood parasite is the European cuckoo. They never lay eggs in their own nests. The cuckoo removes one of the host’s eggs and replaces it with its own (which usually mimics the ...

Cuckoo birds present a useful system for studying coevolutionary diversification. In some species, cuckoo chicks kick the host young from the nest, whereas in others, cuckoo birds are reared ...

So while host birds, over time, adapt to the cuckoo’s tricks, the cuckoo just adapts to become even trickier. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2017. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0279-3 ( About DOIs ).

Eggs of the fusspot brambling, on the other hand, which rejects 90% of cuckoo eggs, have about 30% colour-space overlap. Meanwhile, cuckoo eggs laid in the nest of red-backed shrikes – a bird so fussy ...

Common cuckoos are brood parasitic birds that lay their eggs in the nests of host species. Soon after hatching, the cuckoo chick evicts all other nestlings and eggs from the nest.

But because of its habit of disturbing other birds’ nests, Paton’s not taking too sentimental a view of the cuckoo. “It’s not a species that we necessarily want to get established in North ...