Are tits really unsuitable hosts for the common cuckoo?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/14:00427436

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are tits really unsuitable hosts for the common cuckoo?

Original language description

Avian brood parasites exploit hosts that have accessible nests and a soft insect diet. Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts were traditionally classified as suitable if both parameters were fulfilled or unsuitable if one, or both, were not. In line withthis view, hole-nesting tits (Paridae) have become a text-book example of unsuitable Cuckoo hosts. Our extensive literature search for Cuckoo eggs hatched and chicks raised by hosts revealed 16 Cuckoo nestlings in GreatTit (Parus major) nests, 2 nestlings and 2 fledglings in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), and 1 nestling in a Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus) nest. Our own data from natural observations and cross-fostering experiments concur with literature data that Great Tits are able to rear Cuckoo chicks to fledging. The natural observations involve the first known cases where a bird species became parasitized as a by-product of nest usurpation (take-over). Surprisingly, Cuckoo chicks raised by Great Tits grew better than Cuckoo

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F12%2F2404" target="_blank" >GAP506/12/2404: Host-parasite interaction as an extreme form of parent-offspring conflict</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ornis Fennica

ISSN

0030-5685

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

91

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

FI - FINLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

166-177

UT code for WoS article

000344436900004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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