| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Authors: | Avil, SOLER, JUANJ, Soler, M, M |
| Journal: | Animal Behaviour |
| Volume: | 67 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Date Published: | 2004 |
| ISBN Number: | 0003-3472 |
| Keywords: | Corvidae, Pica, Pica pica |
| Abstract: | The coevolutionary process between avian brood parasites and their hosts predicts that low intraclutch variation in egg colour appearance favours egg discrimination of parasite eggs by hosts. Low intraclutch variation would also result in high interclutch variation, which would increase the difficulty of evolution of mimicry by the cuckoo, because many host colour patterns might coexist in the same host population. We explored this possibility using an experimental approach in the common magpie, Pica pica, and great spotted cuckoo, Clamator glandarius, system. We artificially parasitized magpie nests with great spotted cuckoo model eggs to assess host response in two populations in Spain (Guadix and Do |
| URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347204000181 |
| Short Title: | Animal Behaviour |
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