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Hughes, Janice M. "Taxonomic significance of host-egg mimicry by facultative brood parasites of the avian genus Coccyzus (Cuculidae)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 75, no. 9 (1997): 1380–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-764.

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Black-billed (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) and Yellow-billed (C. americanus) cuckoos are facultative brood parasites that occasionally lay their eggs in the nests of 10 and 11 other bird species, respectively. This study demonstrates that both cuckoo species produce blue–green eggs that fully or nearly match the eggs of over 70% of their reported host species, a proportion significantly greater than if hosts were being selected at random from the potential host pool. These results suggest that the cuckoos may be selecting hosts on the basis of their egg colour, and support a hypothesis of egg mim

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Barrero, Adrián, Julia Gómez-Catasús, Daniel Bustillo-de la Rosa, Juan Traba, Julia Zurdo, and Margarita Reverter. "First documented case of Tawny Pipit <em>Anthus campestris</em> nest parasitism by Common Cuckoo <em>Cuculus canorus</em> in Spanish steppes." Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia 92, no. 2 (2022): 49–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rio.2022.634.

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Interspecific brood or nest parasitism is a relatively common breeding behavior in birds. Through this reproductive tactic, brood-parasites avoid the costs associated with raising and maintaining chicks by laying their eggs in the nests of the host species in which they are specialized. The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) follows this brood parasite strategy. Female cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, mimicking egg shape, size, and color of the host species. In this paper we report the first documented case of parasitism of tawny pipit nests by the common cuckoo in Spani

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Saino, Nicola, Diego Rubolini, Esa Lehikoinen, et al. "Climate change effects on migration phenology may mismatch brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts." Biology Letters 5, no. 4 (2009): 539–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0312.

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Phenological responses to climate change vary among taxa and across trophic levels. This can lead to a mismatch between the life cycles of ecologically interrelated populations (e.g. predators and prey), with negative consequences for population dynamics of some of the interacting species. Here we provide, to our knowledge, the first evidence that climate change might disrupt the association between the life cycles of the common cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus ), a migratory brood parasitic bird, and its hosts. We investigated changes in timing of spring arrival of the cuckoo and its hosts throughout

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Holmes, Richard T., and Harry F. Recher. "Search Tactics of Insectivorous Birds Foraging in an Australian Eucalypt Forest." Auk 103, no. 3 (1986): 515–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/103.3.515.

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Abstract The different ways birds searched for food in an Australian Eucalyptus forest led them to detect and capture different kinds of prey. Five major searching modes were identified among 23 common, mostly insectivorous bird species. These were distinguished largely by the rates, distances, and angles moved by birds while foraging and by their prey-capture behavior. Some bird species typically moved slowly, visually examining substrates at relatively long distances, and then took flight to capture prey (e.g. whistlers, flycatchers, muscicapid robins, cuckoos). Others moved at more rapid ra

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Caves, Eleanor M., Martin Stevens, Edwin S. Iversen, and Claire N. Spottiswoode. "Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1810 (2015): 20150598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0598.

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Hosts of brood-parasitic birds must distinguish their own eggs from parasitic mimics, or pay the cost of mistakenly raising a foreign chick. Egg discrimination is easier when different host females of the same species each lay visually distinctive eggs (egg ‘signatures’), which helps to foil mimicry by parasites. Here, we ask whether brood parasitism is associated with lower levels of correlation between different egg traits in hosts, making individual host signatures more distinctive and informative. We used entropy as an index of the potential information content encoded by nine aspects of c

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Møller, Anders Pape, Federico Morelli, Yanina Benedetti, et al. "Multiple species of cuckoos are superior predictors of bird species richness in Asia." Ecosphere 8, no. 11 (2017): e02003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2003.

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Payne, Robert B., Ian Rowley, and Laura L. Payne. "Splendid Wren Malurus Splendens Response To Cuckoos: an Experimental Test of Social Organization in a Communal Bird." Behaviour 94, no. 1-2 (1985): 108–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853985x00299.

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AbstractA population of cooperatively breeding, group-living splendid wrens was tested with a mounted parasitic cuckoo. At all nests with incubated eggs or nestlings, wrens attacked the cuckoo. The timing and intensity of attacks was independent of the nest day and of the age and breeding experience of the wrens. The breeding female usually spotted and attacked the cuckoo first. Her mate and the nonbreeding helpers responded to her call and mobbed and attacked the cuckoo. Response was no quicker in groups with nonbreeding auxiliaries than in single pairs. Discovery time was independent of the

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Medina, Iliana, and Naomi E. Langmore. "The costs of avian brood parasitism explain variation in egg rejection behaviour in hosts." Biology Letters 11, no. 7 (2015): 20150296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0296.

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Many bird species can reject foreign eggs from their nests. This behaviour is thought to have evolved in response to brood parasites, birds that lay their eggs in the nest of other species. However, not all hosts of brood parasites evict parasitic eggs. In this study, we collate data from egg rejection experiments on 198 species, and perform comparative analyses to understand the conditions under which egg rejection evolves. We found evidence, we believe for the first time in a large-scale comparative analysis, that (i) non-current host species have rejection rates as high as current hosts, (i

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Birkhead, T. R., N. Hemmings, C. N. Spottiswoode, et al. "Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1708 (2010): 1019–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1504.

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The offspring of brood parasitic birds benefit from hatching earlier than host young. A proposed but little-known strategy to achieve this is ‘internal incubation’, by retaining the egg in the oviduct for an additional 24 h. To test this, we quantified the stage of embryo development at laying in four brood parasitic birds (European cuckoo, Cuculus canorus ; African cuckoo, Cuculus gularis ; greater honeyguide, Indicator indicator ; and the cuckoo finch, Anomalospiza imberbis ). For the two cuckoos and the honeyguide, all of which lay at 48 h intervals, embryos were at a relatively advanced st

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Noh, Hee-Jin, Ros Gloag, and Naomi E. Langmore. "True recognition of nestlings by hosts selects for mimetic cuckoo chicks." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1880 (2018): 20180726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0726.

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Brood parasitic cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests, whereafter the young cuckoo hatches, ejects its nest-mates and monopolizes the care of the host parents. Theory predicts that hosts should not evolve to recognize and reject cuckoo chicks via imprinting because of the risk of mistakenly imprinting on a cuckoo chick in their first brood and thereafter always rejecting their own chicks. However, recent studies have revealed that some hosts do reject cuckoo chicks from the nest, indicating that these hosts’ recognition systems either do not rely on first brood imprinting, or use cues t

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Krüger, O., N. B. Davies, and M. D. Sorenson. "The evolution of sexual dimorphism in parasitic cuckoos: sexual selection or coevolution?" Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, no. 1617 (2007): 1553–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.0281.

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Sexual dimorphism is ubiquitous in animals and can result from selection pressure on one or both sexes. Sexual selection has become the predominant explanation for the evolution of sexual dimorphism, with strong selection on size-related mating success in males being the most common situation. The cuckoos (family Cuculidae) provide an exceptional case in which both sexes of many species are freed from the burden of parental care but where coevolution between parasitic cuckoos and their hosts also results in intense selection. Here, we show that size and plumage differences between the sexes in

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Igic, Branislav, Phillip Cassey, Tomáš Grim, et al. "A shared chemical basis of avian host–parasite egg colour mimicry." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1731 (2011): 1068–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1718.

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Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in other birds' nests and impose considerable fitness costs on their hosts. Historically and scientifically, the best studied example of circumventing host defences is the mimicry of host eggshell colour by the common cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus ). Yet the chemical basis of eggshell colour similarity, which impacts hosts' tolerance towards parasitic eggs, remains unknown. We tested the alternative scenarios that (i) cuckoos replicate host egg pigment chemistry, or (ii) cuckoos use alternative mechanisms to produce a similar perceptual effect to mimic host egg

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Igic, Branislav, Kim Braganza, Margaret M. Hyland, et al. "Alternative mechanisms of increased eggshell hardness of avian brood parasites relative to host species." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 8, no. 64 (2011): 1654–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2011.0207.

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Obligate brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in nests of other species and parasite eggs typically have evolved greater structural strength relative to host eggs. Increased mechanical strength of the parasite eggshell is an adaptation that can interfere with puncture ejection behaviours of discriminating hosts. We investigated whether hardness of eggshells is related to differences between physical and chemical traits from three different races of the parasitic common cuckoo Cuculus canorus , and their respective hosts. Using tools developed for materials science, we discovered a novel correl

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Badmaev, A. A. "Traditional Buryat Beliefs About Birds." Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 48, no. 2 (2020): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2020.48.2.106-113.

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This study, based on ethnographic, linguistic, and folk materials, describes and interprets Buryat ideas of birds. The analysis of lexical data reveals the principal groups of birds according to the Buryat folk classiﬁcation. The bat’s status is indistinct, since bats are not subordinate to the kings of the animal world. Diagnostic criteria underlying the classiﬁcation of birds are outlined. The main criterion was whether a bird was beneﬁcial or harmful. Ornithomorphic images in Buryat mythology, folklore, and ritual are described. Cult birds and bird totems are listed, and relics of local bir

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Turner, Richard, Naomi Langmore, Helen Osmond, and Andrew Cockburn. "First recorded evidence of ejection of a cuckoo egg in a fairy-wren species." Australian Field Ornithology 39 (2022): 104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo39104109.

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Brood-parasitic cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, abandoning parental care to their hosts. Many host species have evolved defences to escape or reduce the costs associated with cuckoo parasitism. Superb Fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus, which are a host to several cuckoo species in Australia, can distinguish cuckoo eggs based on their size or shape, or by using indirect cues such as the timing of egg laying or the presence of an adult cuckoo near the nest. They have previously been shown to reject cuckoo eggs by methods of egg burial or abandonment. These methods are likely to be

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McClelland, Stephanie C., Gabriel A. Jamie, Katy Waters, Lara Caldas, Claire N. Spottiswoode, and Steven J. Portugal. "Convergent evolution of reduced eggshell conductance in avian brood parasites." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1769 (2019): 20180194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0194.

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Brood parasitism has evolved independently in several bird lineages, giving rise to strikingly similar behavioural adaptations that suggest convergent evolution. By comparison, convergence of physiological traits that optimize this breeding strategy has received much less attention, yet these species share many similar physiological traits that optimize this breeding strategy. Eggshell structure is important for embryonic development as it controls the flux of metabolic gases, such as O 2 , CO 2 and H 2 O, into and out of the egg; in particular, water vapour conductance ( G H 2 O ) is an essen

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Kleindorfer, Sonia, Christine Evans, and Diane Colombelli-Négrel. "Females that experience threat are better teachers." Biology Letters 10, no. 5 (2014): 20140046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0046.

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Superb fairy-wren ( Malurus cyaneus ) females use an incubation call to teach their embryos a vocal password to solicit parental feeding care after hatching. We previously showed that high call rate by the female was correlated with high call similarity in fairy-wren chicks, but not in cuckoo chicks, and that parent birds more often fed chicks with high call similarity. Hosts should be selected to increase their defence behaviour when the risk of brood parasitism is highest, such as when cuckoos are present in the area. Therefore, we experimentally test whether hosts increase call rate to embr

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Dolenec, Zdravko. "Sve raniji povratak kukavice (Cuculus canorus L.) sa zimovanja u šume sjeverozapadne Hrvatske." Šumarski list 141, no. 11-12 (2017): 576. http://dx.doi.org/10.31298/sl.141.11-12.4.

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The Earth is getting warmer at its surface and this global warming can be linked to numerous different phenomena worldwide and it has great impact on ecosystems. Responses to climate change vary interspecies, intraspecies and among different area. Most of the birds in the temperate regions arrive earlier from their wintering places and it is believed that this is a response to the significantly higher spring temperatures. The main aim of this work is to describe changes in spring arrival dates of Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in the period between 1989 and 2016, and also, to identify relatio

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Oliveira, Seixas Rezende, Wellington Hannibal, Jefferson Eduardo Silveira Miranda, and Gustavo Valtuille De Oliveira. "First published record of rodent predation by guira cuckoo in Brazil: notes about vertebrate predation." Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais 17, no. 2 (2022): 563–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.46357/bcnaturais.v17i2.829.

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Guira cuckoo (Guira guira) is a communal breeder bird species displaying a diversified diet. In this study, we report the first published predation event of a rodent by Guira cuckoo in Brazil. We searched for vertebrate predation by this bird species in Brazilian domains in the following databases: Google Scholar, SciELO, Scopus and Web of Science. We recorded the rodent predation event in a landscape composed of pasture and gallery forest in Campo Grande municipality, Mato Grosso do Sul, central-west Brazil. The predated rodent is a vesper mouse, Calomys sp. We found 19 vertebrate species pre

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Daben, M. R., B. O. Echor, and S. A. Da’an. "Abundance and diversity of ectoparasites of wild birds in Pandam Wildlife Park, Plateau State, Nigeria." Nigerian Journal of Parasitology 41, no. 1 (2020): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njpar.v41i1.2.

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Birds’ populations are being threatened by parasites that have not received adequate attention by parasitologists. This study aimed at evaluating the abundance and diversity of ectoparasites of the wild birds in Pandam Wildlife Park. A systematic five-month study of ectoparasites was conducted. Sixty-two (62) birds were trapped using mist nets and examined for ectoparasite infestation. Wool soaked with 70% ethanol, using gloved-protected-hand; ectoparasites were carefully extracted, preserved in sampling bottles containing 70% alcohol for morphological identification. A wide spectrum insectici

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Mardiastuti, A., Y. A. Mulyani, and M. D. Kusrini. "Bird visit to Ficus benjamina in two urbanization gradients in the tropics." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 948, no. 1 (2021): 012061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/948/1/012061.

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Abstract Fig trees area believed to be important bird habitat in the tropics, including in urban areas. The research objective was to reveal the bird species that visited Ficus benjamina in the low and high urbanization gradients in the tropics. Data were obtained in IPB University Darmaga Campus (low urbanization) and Sentul City (high urbanization) in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia), through direct observations of four trees per site in the morning, midday, late afternoon, and night, totalling 276 observation hours. Total of 29 bird species visited F. benjamina trees (26 species in low urbaniza

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MOKHTER, NORMAISHARAH, MUHAMMAD ARIFUDDIN AKHSAN, MUHAMMAD ASRAF AMRAN, et al. "BIRD COMPOSITION IN FOREST AND COASTAL ZONE OF PULAU TINGGI, JOHOR, MALAYSIA." JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT 17, no. 11 (2022): 12–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.46754/jssm.2022.11.003.

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Documentation of bird composition on the islands around Peninsular Malaysia is scarce and the attention is mainly focused on Malaysia’s Borneo Islands. Therefore, this study aims to fulfil this knowledge gap by documenting the bird composition in Pulau Tinggi. The study was conducted from March to August 2019 using mist-netting and direct observation methods. A total of 39 bird species belonging to 24 families were recorded. Among these, 28 species were residents, four species were residents migrants and seven were migrants. Migrant species include Wood sandpipers (Tringa glareola), Common San

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Millsap, Brian A., Timothy F. Breen, and Laura M. Phillips. "Ecology of the Cooper's Hawk in North Florida." North American Fauna 78, no. 00 (2013): 1–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3996/nafa.78.0001.

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Abstract We studied adult Cooper's hawks Accipiter cooperii on two study areas in north Florida from 1995 to 2001, an area dominated by large plantations managed for northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus and an area of mixed farmland and woods with no direct bobwhite management. We monitored 76 Cooper's hawk nesting attempts at 31 discrete nest areas, and radio-tagged 19 breeding males and 30 breeding females that we radio-tracked for up to 5 y. Nesting density (565 to 1,494 ha per occupied nest area) was comparable but productivity (1.8 and 2.8 young fledged per occupied and successful nest a

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Yuzieva, Kristina. "Bird image in the traditional vision of the Mari people (ethnolinguistic aspect): the cuckoo." Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 5, no. 2 (2014): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2014.5.2.10.

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This article gives an overview of the cuckoo image from the ethnolinguistic perspective. The cuckoo symbol is very old and is connected with ancient Mari concepts. The cuckoo is often associated with the image of a widow or an orphan. In addition to this, the image of the cuckoo also is connected with images of the funeral and memorial cult of the Mari people. The cuckoo is present in the symbolism of death. It manifests itself not only in fortune telling, but also in a number of omens and superstitions. Like other European peoples, the Mari people ask the cuckoo about the years left for a per

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Senkovych, Olha. "«It floated like a black winch» (metaphoric portrait of a woman in Yuri Vynnychuk’s prose)." Culture of the Word, no. 90 (2019): 46–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.37919/0201-419x-2019.90.4.

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The article states that the works of the contemporary author Yuri Vynnychuk constitute a landmark fragment of Ukrainian prose of the late twentieth – early twentieth centuries. The material of the novels «Malva Landa» and «Spring Games» shows the specifi cs of individual linguistic prose, in particular in the fi eld of linguistic portraiture of a woman. Based on the consideration of stylistic means of linguistic and artistic portraiture of a woman in prose of Yuri Vynnychuk, productive ways of metaphorization with the use of nominations of birds, plants, household objects and so on were identi

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Bateman, Heather L., Sidney B. Riddle, and Erin S. Cubley. "Using Bioacoustics to Examine Vocal Phenology of Neotropical Migratory Birds on a Wild and Scenic River in Arizona." Birds 2, no. 3 (2021): 261–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/birds2030019.

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Passive acoustic recorders have been used successfully as automated survey tools to detect terrestrial wildlife. However, few studies have monitored Neotropical migratory bird use of riparian forest habitat using this technology. Within dryland ecosystems, the forests along rivers support high bird diversity. Many bird species of conservation concern require these floodplain forest habitats for foraging, migration stop-overs, and breeding. Few studies have explored the use of acoustic records in riverine systems designated for conservation for their natural resource value via the Wild and Scen

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DAVIS, ROBERT A., GUY DUTSON, and JUDIT K. SZABO. "Conservation status of threatened and endemic birds of New Britain, Papua New Guinea." Bird Conservation International 28, no. 3 (2017): 439–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270917000156.

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SummaryNew Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea supports 14 endemic bird species and together with New Ireland, forms an Endemic Bird Area that supports 38 restricted range species. Extensive conversion of lowland forest to oil palm plantations resulted in the loss of over 20% of forest under 100 m altitude between 1989 and 2000. However the rate of loss has subsequently slowed (2.2% loss across all altitudes between 2002 and 2014), and much forest remains at higher altitudes: 72% of New Britain remained forested (including secondary forest) in 2014. Despite the ongoing high

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Manar Abdulkareem Al-Abaji. "Cuckoo Search Algorithm: Review and its Application." Tikrit Journal of Pure Science 26, no. 2 (2022): 137–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/tjps.v26i2.130.

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Optimization techniques play a major role in real-world problems, As many cases in which decisions are made are based on random research. But choosing the optimization technology is a big challenge for the user. The cuckoo search algorithm is one of the modern optimization techniques that can replace many of the traditional techniques used, The cuckoo bird use a Levi's flight strategy based on the egg laying method to extract a solution to the problem. The presented work will provide a review of the original cuckoo search algorithm with mentioning some types of developed and hybrid cuckoo sear

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Shydlovskyy, Ihor, Oleksii Dubovyk, Petro Hrynyuk, Ivan Zahorodnyi, and Vasyl Matejchyk. "Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts." GEO&BIO 2021, no. 20 (2021): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/gb2012.

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Meadow ecosystems comprise a significant part of the area of Ukraine, especially in its western regions. Those ecosystems are subjects of concern today because of the active agricultural use and droughts that also threatens the animal population of meadows, including birds. Studies of meadow bird species of western Ukraine are limited to atlases, which results in a lack of precise data. This work was part of an international project on the conservation of the great snipe Gallinago media and allowed us to collect valuable data on the abundance and occurrence of meadow bird species nearby to the

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Ruda, S. V., O. V. Ryabinina, V. O. Melnyk, and L. M. Palval. "Bird of domestic origin." Sučasne ptahìvnictvo, no. 9-10 (December 17, 2020): 6–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.31548/poultry2020.09-10.006.

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Aboriginal breeds and bird populations are a valuable genetic resource. Characterized by relatively low productivity, they exhibit high viability and good adaptability to the local conditions in which they were formed. Due to these positive qualities, they are in high demand among the population and have been successfully used in various breeding programs. Therefore, their conservation is receiving much attention worldwide. Not so long ago, Poltava chickens, or as they were called, were widely known in Ukraine. The breed included three varieties: Poltava Clay, Poltava Creep and Poltava Black.

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Lambert, Frank R. "Some key sites and significant records of birds in the Philippines and Sabah." Bird Conservation International 3, no. 4 (1993): 281–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900002562.

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SummaryBetween June 1989 and October 1990 casual records of rare birds were made in Sabah and on Sipadan Island, Malaysia, and on Luzon, Negros, Bohol and Mindanao, Philippines, with additional observations on Palawan and Tawitawi, Philippines, in August and September 1991. Key sites for bird conservation profiled here are the Angat watershed, Quezon National Park and Candaba Marsh (all on Luzon), Mt Canlaon (Negros), Rajah Sukituna National Park (Bohol), Mt Katanglad (Mindanao), remaining forest on both Tawitawi and Sipadan, and the Danum Valley in Sabah. Notes are provided on 31 species of b

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Solomou, Alexandra, and Athanassios Sfougaris. "Comparing conventional and organic olive groves in central Greece: plant and bird diversity and abundance." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 26, no. 4 (2011): 297–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170511000111.

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AbstractThe present study was conducted in Magnesia Prefecture, central Greece, during the period May–June 2007. It aimed at the comparison between conventional and certified organic olive groves with regard to olive and olive oil production, diversity of plants (herbaceous and woody) and diversity and abundance of avifauna. Correlations between variables within herbaceous plants (linear regression) and woody plants (Principal Component Analysis), and the role of integration time of olive groves to the organic system were investigated. Also, finding easily measurable parameters indicating high

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Banu, P. K. Nizar, and S. Andrews. "Gene Clustering Using Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms." International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing 6, no. 4 (2015): 14–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijamc.2015100102.

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Gene clustering is a familiar step in the exploratory analysis of high dimensional biological data. It is the process of grouping genes of similar patterns in the same cluster and aims at analyzing the functions of gene that leads to the development of drugs and early diagnosis of diseases. In the recent years, much research has been proposed using nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms. Cuckoo Search is one such optimization algorithm inspired from nature by breeding strategy of parasitic bird, the cuckoo. This paper proposes cuckoo search clustering and clustering using levy flight cuckoo

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Anderson, Michael G., and Mark E. Hauber. "The Cuckoos. Bird Families of the World, Volume 15. By Robert B Payne; molecular genetic analysis of cuckoo phylogeny by , Michael D Sorenson and , Robert B Payne; color plates by , Karen Klitz; illustrated by , John Megahan. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $189.50. xxii + 618 p + 20 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐19‐850213‐3. 2005." Quarterly Review of Biology 82, no. 2 (2007): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/519607.

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Feeney, W. E., J. Troscianko, N. E. Langmore, and C. N. Spottiswoode. "Evidence for aggressive mimicry in an adult brood parasitic bird, and generalized defences in its host." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1810 (2015): 20150795. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0795.

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Mimicry of a harmless model (aggressive mimicry) is used by egg, chick and fledgling brood parasites that resemble the host's own eggs, chicks and fledglings. However, aggressive mimicry may also evolve in adult brood parasites, to avoid attack from hosts and/or manipulate their perception of parasitism risk. We tested the hypothesis that female cuckoo finches ( Anomalospiza imberbis ) are aggressive mimics of female Euplectes weavers, such as the harmless, abundant and sympatric southern red bishop ( Euplectes orix ). We show that female cuckoo finch plumage colour and pattern more closely re

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Sparks, T. H., S. Atkinson, K. Lewthwaite, R. Dhap, N. J. Moran, and P. Tryjanowski. "Can Bird Abundance Declines be Detected by Citizen Science Programmes? A Case Study Using Common Cuckoo Cuculus Canorus." Avian Biology Research 10, no. 4 (2017): 241–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3184/175815617x15036738758862.

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Using data from two independent UK citizen science schemes we investigate evidence for declines in abundance of Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus, a species that is particularly easy to record. One of the schemes (Nature's Calendar) involves phenological recording across various taxa and is open to the general public, the other (BirdTrack) targets more committed birdwatchers. Results show a very strong correlation between the two schemes and confirm their ability to detect the marked decline in the abundance of Common Cuckoo in the UK in the 21st century. Furthermore, the first scheme allows some

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Mohamad, Azizah, Azlan Mohd Zain, Nor Erne Nazira Bazin, and Amirmudin Udin. "Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Optimization Problems - A Literature Review." Applied Mechanics and Materials 421 (September 2013): 502–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.421.502.

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Cuckoo Search (CS) is an optimization algorithm developed by Yang and Deb in 2009. This paper describes an overview of CS which is inspired by the life of a bird family, called Cuckoo as well as overview of CS applications in various categories for solving optimization problems. Special lifestyle of Cuckoo and their characteristics in egg laying and breeding has been the basic motivation for this optimization algorithm. The categories that reviewed are Engineering, Pattern Recognition, Software Testing & Data Generation, Networking, Job Scheduling and Data Fusion and Wireless Sensor Networ

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Le, Dung A., and Dieu N. Vo. "Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Minimization of Power Loss and Voltage Deviation." International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering 5, no. 1 (2016): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeoe.2016010102.

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This paper proposes a cuckoo search algorithm (CSA) to solve the optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem in power system operation considering the power loss and voltage deviation. The proposed CSA is a nature inspired algorithm from the cuckoo species laying their eggs in the nest of other species. There is a probability of the host bird to discover the alien eggs in its nest and the host bird either destroys the strange egg or simply ignores the host and builds a new one. The advantages of the CSA method are few control parameters and high optimal solution quality. The proposed method

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Lloyd, John David. "Movements and use of space by Mangrove Cuckoos (Coccyzus minor) in Florida, USA." PeerJ 5 (June 30, 2017): e3534. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3534.

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I used radio-telemetry to track the movements of Mangrove Cuckoos (Coccyzus minor) captured in southwest Florida. Relatively little is known about the natural history of Mangrove Cuckoos, and my goal was to provide an initial description of how individuals use space, with a focus on the size and placement of home ranges. I captured and affixed VHF radio-transmitters to 32 individuals between 2012 and 2015, and obtained a sufficient number of relocations from 16 of them to estimate home-range boundaries and describe patterns of movement. Home-range area varied widely among individuals, but in g

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Fitzimons, James A., Mark J. Antos, and Grant C. Palmer. "When more is less: Urban remnants support high bird abundance but diversity varies." Pacific Conservation Biology 17, no. 2 (2011): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc110097.

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Urban remnant vegetation, especially where it occurs in public parks, allows for relatively easy access for ongoing biodiversity monitoring. However, relatively little baseline information on bird species distribution and abundance across a range of identifiable urban remnants appears in the published literature. We surveyed the relative abundance and distribution of birds across urban and suburban remnant vegetation in Melbourne, Australia. One hundred and six species were recorded, of which 98 were indigenous. Red wattlebirds had the highest mean relative abundance with 2.94 birds/ ha, follo

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Fischer, Johannes H., Heiko U. Wittmer, Endro Setiawan, Sarah Jaffe, and Andrew J. Marshall. "Incipient loss of a rainforest mutualism?" Journal of Threatened Taxa 9, no. 1 (2017): 9734. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2890.9.1.9734-9737.

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We use data from motion-activated remote cameras to document a commensal, and possibly mutualistic, relationship between Bornean Ground Cuckoos and Bearded Pigs in the rainforests of Kalimantan, Indonesia. We hypothesise that birds benefiting from symbiotic relationships may suffer indirect detrimental effects from hunting that targets large mammals in tropical rainforests.

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Guo, Songkai, Wenhui Wu, Yaxin Liu, Xiaofang Kang, and Chunwang Li. "Effects of Valley Topography on Acoustic Communication in Birds: Why Do Birds Avoid Deep Valleys in Daqinggou Nature Reserve?" Animals 12, no. 21 (2022): 2896. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12212896.

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To investigate the effects of valley topography on the acoustic transmission of avian vocalisations, we carried out playback experiments in Daqinggou valley, Inner Mongolia, China. During the experiments, we recorded the vocalisations of five avian species, the large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos Wagler, 1827), common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758), Eurasian magpie (Pica pica Linnaeus, 1758), Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus Linnaeus, 1758), and meadow bunting (Emberiza cioides Brand, 1843), at transmission distances of 30 m and 50 m in the upper and lower parts of the valle

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Lahti, D. C. "Evolution of bird eggs in the absence of cuckoo parasitism." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102, no. 50 (2005): 18057–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0508930102.

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Kretschmer, Rafael, Ricardo José Gunski, Analía del Valle Garnero, et al. "Chromosomal Analysis in Crotophaga ani (Aves, Cuculiformes) Reveals Extensive Genomic Reorganization and an Unusual Z-Autosome Robertsonian Translocation." Cells 10, no. 1 (2020): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells10010004.

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Although cytogenetics studies in cuckoos (Aves, Cuculiformes) have demonstrated an interesting karyotype variation, such as variations in the chromosome morphology and diploid number, their chromosome organization and evolution, and relation with other birds are poorly understood. Hence, we combined conventional and molecular cytogenetic approaches to investigate chromosome homologies between chicken and the smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani). Our results demonstrate extensive chromosome reorganization in C. ani, with interchromosomal rearrangements involving macro and microchromosomes. Intrac

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Shanthasheela, A., and P. Shanmugavadivu. "Cuckoo Search Based Forest Cover Classification." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 16, no. 8 (2019): 3550–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2019.8322.

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Cuckoo Search optimization is one of the nature-inspired algorithms being widely experimented and explored to offer optimal and feasible solutions for science and engineering problems. It is inspired by the brood parasitism of cuckoo species laying their eggs in the other host birds’ nests. This research work is designed on the principle of the Cuckoo Search algorithm for the classification of forest cover in the satellite images. The proposed method titled, Cuckoo Search Based Classification (CSBC) is confirmed to have efficiently classified the forest cover with accuracy of 95 percent and ab

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Piperzycki, Adam, and Wiesław Ludwin. "Application of rogue algorithms in the WLAN planning task." Science, Technology and Innovation 4, no. 3 (2017): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.8021.

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The aim of this article is to examine and compare swarm optimization methods in the task of planning indoor wireless networks (WLAN). For this purpose, in the process of searching for the extremum of the criterion function, which is an optimization indicator, six swarm algorithms were used: artificial bees colony, bat, bee, cuckoo, firefly, particle swarm (bird).

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Dinata, Yoan, Agung Nugroho, Iding Achmad Haidir, and Matthew Linkie. "Camera trapping rare and threatened avifauna in west-central Sumatra." Bird Conservation International 18, no. 1 (2008): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270908000051.

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AbstractTropical forests are becoming increasingly degraded and fragmented by logging, which can affect the survival of forest bird species in different ways. In this study, we present avifauna data collected from a monitoring programme in west-central Sumatra that set camera traps in three study areas with different habitat types, levels of degradation and protection status. From 5,990 camera trap-nights, 248 independent bird photographs were recorded, comprising four orders and nine species, including three endemic species. The Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus) was recorded in all stud

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Cohen, Marcus S., M. Brent Hawkins, David W. Stock, and Alexander Cruz. "Early life-history features associated with brood parasitism in the cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1769 (2019): 20180205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0205.

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The cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus , is the only known obligate brood parasite among fishes, exploiting the parental care of mouthbrooding cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika. Comparisons of this system to brood parasitism in birds may reveal broader principles that underlie the evolution of this life-history strategy in vertebrates. However, little is known about the features of the cuckoo catfish that enable this species to successfully parasitize cichlids. Here, we examine early ontogeny of the cuckoo catfish and compare it to that of its cichlid hosts as well as a non-parasitic

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Tryjanowski, Piotr, Federico Morelli, Zbigniew Kwieciński, Piotr Indykiewicz, and Anders Pape Møller. "Birds respond similarly to taxidermic models and live cuckoos Cuculus canorus." Journal of Ethology 36, no. 3 (2018): 243–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-018-0554-z.

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Polačik, M., M. Reichard, C. Smith, and R. Blažek. "Parasitic cuckoo catfish exploit parental responses to stray offspring." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1769 (2019): 20180412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0412.

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Interspecific brood parasitism occurs in several independent lineages of birds and social insects, putatively evolving from intraspecific brood parasitism. The cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus , the only known obligatory non-avian brood parasite, exploits mouthbrooding cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika, despite the absence of parental care in its evolutionary lineage (family Mochokidae). Cuckoo catfish participate in host spawning events, with their eggs subsequently collected and brooded by parental cichlids, though they can later be selectively rejected by the host. One scenario for

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