For the care and feeding of its offspring, the common cuckoo outsources ... one of the eggs that’s been laid there and lays one of her own—a behavior known as brood parasitism.

The Levaillant's cuckoo is infamous for its brood parasitism (a sneaky survival ... that involves laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species. This cunning behaviour allows the cuckoo ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

incubating eggs, and feeding young. For hosts of brood parasitic birds, the costs of parasitism range from diminished nestling growth rate, due to competition with larger and more competitive ...

Eggshells are the second largest collection represented in ornithology after bird skins and this ... and pattern as a defence to brood parasitism by Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). The pipits learn ...

These and other cuckoo ... eggs look like? Researchers have tackled this question by experimentally manipulating the appearance of the bird's own egg by dying one, more, or all eggs in the same ...

The term comes from the cuckoo bird, which lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. See Easter Egg. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.