If you’re a bird and you’re trying to be taken seriously, it can’t be easy to be a cuckoo. In an animal grouping that includes the golden eagle, the sharp-shinned hawk and the great crested heron, ...
An evolutionary trick allows cuckoos to 'mimic' the plumage of birds of prey, and may be used to scare mothers from their nests -- allowing cuckoos to lay eggs. Parasitism in cuckoos may be more much ...
Birder Rama Neelamegam lets on about a mid-click blooper from 2017. Executed at the woods of the Theosophical Society, the photographic click was a half measure — a half bird, actually. It left a ...
On May 20, 2023, while walking and watching birds in Dhaka's National Botanical Garden, I saw an interesting scene: a group of Jungle babblers took care of a common hawk-cuckoo chick by feeding it ...
Cuckoos are nest parasites. That means they lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then put the effort into raising the chicks. So you'd think they'd be quiet about it. Yet female cuckoos have a ...
In the avian world, cuckoos are the villains you root for. These diabolical birds can trick others into raising the cuckoos' young instead of their own. From a thick playbook of deceptions, one trick ...
Cuckoos have long been held as masters of disguise, but new research suggests they're even more sneaky than previously thought. Female common cuckoos imitate hawks as to divert host parents’ attention ...
Nature has its own doppelgangers. Just like the rat snake is often mistaken for the cobra and even done to death on account of that, there exists a bird that is often confused with the shikra – that ...
CUCKOLDS are men whose wives gave birth to infants that were blatantly not their own. The well known trickery of the cuckoo, the bird from which “cuckold” is derived, is as a nest parasite—laying eggs ...
Hawk mimicry in cuckoos and anti-parasitic aggressive behavior of barn swallows in Denmark and China
Hosts of brood parasites defend their nests against parasitism by aggression and subsequently, if parasitized, by rejection of the parasite egg or nestling. Cuckoos have evolved plumage mimicry with ...
New research shows that cuckoos have striped or "barred" feathers that resemble local birds of prey, such as sparrowhawks, that may be used to frighten birds into briefly fleeing their nest in order ...
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