Cuckoo Hosts Fine‐Tune Their Egg Rejection After Experiencing a Parasitism Event by Bin Li, Longwu Wang, Jianping Liu, Wei Liang

“…To investigate whether the egg rejection behaviour of host birds changes after encountering a parasitism event, we conducted egg rejection experiments on the locally most common host of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), the grey bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) in Yunnan, China. …”
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Egg retrieval in ground-nesting cuckoo hosts: can two species of buntings accurately identify and retrieve their own eggs? by Yuhan Zhang, Guo Zhong, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang

“…The south rock bunting (Emberiza yunnanensis) and yellow-throated bunting (E. elegans) are hosts for common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus), which coexist within the study area and breed sympatrically in ground nests. …”
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