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Some birds use brood parasitism. They lay eggs in other species' nests. Indigobirds trick finches. Common Cuckoos mimic predators. Honeyguides kill host young. Brown-headed Cowbirds outcompete chicks.

Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Cuckoos ...

Birds worldwide share a unique alarm call to warn each other about brood parasites like cuckoos. This vocalization, a blend of instinct and learned behavior, has been observed across 21 species ...

Cuckoos are some of nature’s most practiced—and successful—con artists. Many species from this large family of birds are brood parasites. They lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and outsource ...

In the forests of Europe, a snail begins to glow and pulse in neon hues. It’s not alive in the way it once was, it’s ...

Eye size likely plays a role in the contest between avian brood parasites -- birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species -- and their hosts, who sometimes detect the foreign eggs and eject ...

THOUGH the singular habits of the parasitic cow-birds (Molobrus Itonariensis and M. badius) are well known to ornithologists, Mr. L. E. Miller has been able to add still further to the records of ...

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team ...

If you’re a parasite and want to spread out a little in Amazonia, then you better be cool with riding around in a variety of different birds, a new study found. The Amazon region of South America is ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 5, 2010 – Unlike Hawaii and other island groups, no native bird has gone extinct in the Galapagos Islands, although some are in danger. But University of Utah biologists found ...