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  • Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats
  • Written by author N.B. Davies
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 2011/01/21
  • Cuckoos and cowbirds are amongst the select bird groups renowned as professional parasites, who always lay their eggs in the nests of other species. Occasional parasitic laying is also widespread in many other birds, who gladly parasitise the nests of the
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Acknowledgements ..... ix
1: A monstrous outrage on maternal affection ..... 1
2: One hundred brood parasites and some puzzles ..... 11
3: The Common Cuckoo and its hosts ..... 26
4: Co-evolution of host defences and Common Cuckoo trickery ..... 43
5: How to spot a cuckoo egg ..... 59
6: Driving parents cuckoo ..... 70
7: Bronze-cuckoos in Africa and Australia ..... 82
8: The non-evicting cuckoos: manipulative nestlings and Mafia tactics ..... 98
9: Cuckoos versus hosts: who wins? ..... 117
10: The Brown-headed Cowbird and its conquest of North America ..... 141
11: Old and new hosts of the Brown-headed Cowbird and conservation problems ..... 159
12: 'Shot-gun' Shiny and specialist Screaming Cowbirds, with cowbirds and cuckoos compared ..... 177
13: The parasitic finches of Africa: mimicry of host chicks and host songs ..... 194
14: Cheating on your own kind ..... 211
15: Origins ..... 241
Notes on the chapters ..... 257
Appendix 1: The one hundred species of brood parasitic birds ..... 263
Appendix 2: Scientific names of birds and other animals mentioned in the text ..... 271
References ..... 276
Index ..... 299
Other books in the series ..... 311

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