Great spotted cuckoos respond earlier to the arrival of feeding foster parents and perform less erroneous begging when hungry than their magpie host nest‐mates
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DOI: 10.1111/jav.01952
Abstract: In many bird species, parents usually feed the first nestling that starts to beg before its nest‐mates. The pressure to avoid missed feeds could trigger nestlings to perform in erroneous begging in absence of parents,… read more here.
Keywords: magpie; nest mates; great spotted; erroneous begging ... See more keywords