Conspecific brood parasitism in birds: a life-history perspective

BE Lyon, JMA Eadie - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP), whereby females lay eggs in the nests of other
conspecifics, occurs in over 200 species of birds. As an alternative tactic to typical nesting …

Egg recognition and counting reduce costs of avian conspecific brood parasitism

BE Lyon - Nature, 2003‏ - nature.com
Birds parasitized by interspecific brood parasites often adopt defences based on egg
recognition but such behaviours are puzzlingly rare in species parasitized by members of …

Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change

RJ Wilson, CD Thomas, R Fox, DB Roy, WE Kunin - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
Abstract Interpretation of global biodiversity change is hampered by a lack of information on
the historical status of most species in most parts of the world,,,,. Here we show that declines …

Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites

C Moskát, M Bán, T Székely… - Journal of …, 2010‏ - journals.biologists.com
Many avian hosts have evolved antiparasite defence mechanisms, including egg rejection,
to reduce the costs of brood parasitism. The two main alternative cognitive mechanisms of …

Nest predation and climate change as drivers of alternative reproductive tactics in a migratory species

H Pöysä - Journal of Avian Biology, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Alternative reproductive tactics enable individuals to choose a reproductive tactic relative to
their status and prevailing environmental conditions in a way that increases their fitness. For …

The reproductive ecology of the Common Coot (Fulica atra) in the Hauts Plateaux, northeast Algeria

F Samraoui, B Samraoui - Waterbirds, 2007‏ - BioOne
The reproductive biology of the Coot (Fulica atra) was studied in a shallow pond,
Timerganine, in the semi-arid Hauts-Plateaux. Our results contrast with a previous study …

Межвидовой и внутривидовой гнездовой паразитизм у птиц

АД Нумеров - 2003‏ - elibrary.ru
Облигатный гнездовой паразитизм зарегистрирован менее чем у 1% видов мировой
фауны птиц. Столь небольшое число видов, для которых характерен такой способ …

Ecological correlates of alternative reproductive tactics: conspecific brood parasitism rates vary with nest predation and seasonal effects influenced by climate change

SB McRae - Journal of Avian Biology, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecological and social factors shape individual reproductive strategies. Climate change has
wide‐ranging effects on the timing of reproduction and availability of nesting sites for many …

Egg recognition: The importance of quantifying multiple repeatable features as visual identity signals

J Gómez, O Gordo, P Minias - PLoS One, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Brood parasitized and/or colonial birds use egg features as visual identity signals, which
allow parents to recognize their own eggs and avoid paying fitness costs of misdirecting …

Reproduction and survival in the city: which fitness components drive urban colonization in a reed-nesting waterbird?

P Minias - Current Zoology, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Processes of adaptation to urban environments are well described for relatively few avian
taxa, mainly passerines, but selective forces responsible for urban colonization in …