Science news articles about 'cuckoo in the nest'

... always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high ... that they began to understand how hosts recognise a cuckoo egg in the nest. Marcel Honza from the Academy of Sciences ...

... always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high ... started thinking from the birds' perspective that they began to understand how hosts recognise a cuckoo egg in the nest ...

... to present evidence that birds with nests that are at risk of parasitism from common cuckoos benefit from mobbing." The researchers ... to the test, Welbergen and Davies placed model cuckoos at the nests of reed warblers after eggs had been laid ...

Reed warblers live with the threat that a cuckoo bird will infiltrate their nest, remove one of their eggs, and replace ... work showed that reed warblers distinguish cuckoos from other nest enemies and adjust their defences according to local ...

... . These bees, like the more widely known cuckoo birds, invade the nests of other host bee species ... is out collecting pollen for its brood, the cuckoo bee female enters the nest and deposits her eggs ...

Scientists have discovered that fairywren mothers teach their unborn chicks a unique begging call to differentiate them from cuckoos invading her nest.

Some birds use a different breeding strategy to others to avoid cuckoos infiltrating their nests, say scientists.