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Albert Cardona Mar 26

Having red Nick Davies' book "Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature" [1], this paper is even more interesting:

"Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism", Dixit et al. 2026 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003667

"The African cuckoo finch Anomalospiza imberbis parasitizes several host species, each of which has evolved inter-individual variation in egg appearance (“egg signatures”) that facilitates recognition and rejection of mimetic cuckoo finch eggs. We demonstrate that egg signature traits in one host species, the zitting cisticola Cisticola juncidis, are categorically distributed. Field experiments reveal that zitting cisticolas make fewer Type II errors (accepting parasitic eggs) and Type I errors (rejecting their own eggs) than hosts exhibiting continuous variation. This challenges the long-standing expectation (from classification models, statistics, and signal detection theory) of a strict trade-off between these two error types."

[1] https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cuckoo-cheating-by-nature-nick-davies/2880037

#cuckoo #BroodParasitism #birds #parasitism

Angelo Donnermann Mar 15

#funnyfortnight mit Lottes Inkbuddies!
Heute: Nest.

#nest #kuckuck #cuckoo #dinosaur #saurier #cartoon #comicart #angelodonnermann #vogel #bird #lottesinkbuddies #zeichnung #drawing #illustration

Sarah Durrant Mar 11

I didn’t immediately recognise this bird while it was flying around, but got a clear view when it settled on a dead tree - a Pallid #cuckoo. #WildOz #Birding #Tasmania #Nature #Birds

Gsnsp Feb 25

Cuckoo Meaning & Symbolism: Myths, Folklore, and the Surprising Science Behind the Cuckoo’s Call #cuckoo #cuckooclock #cuckoobird #cuckoomalaysia #CuckooBeyondStandards #cuckoopromotion #mythology https://www.gsnsp.com/cuckoo-meaning-symbolism-myths-science/

Sydney Birder Feb 25

Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, first sighting

This morning I spotted a bird I hadn’t seen before. What’s more, it was at one of my favourite stomping grounds: Manly Dam. A few minutes after seeing the bird, I showed my photos to another bush walker. He identified the bird as a Shining Bronze-Cuckoo. I think he’s right.

The bird was quite small, with glowing green-blue wings and tail. Its face was light grey and white, and its front had horizontal brown barring on white:

This looks like a juvenile bird, as the barring is not yet as well-defined as in the adults.

Due to the less well-defined barring, I did wonder if this was a Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoo. But this bird doesn’t have the dark line through the eye that’s characteristic of Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoos, and the white tips of the tail feathers are hidden at rest, while in the Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoo the white tips are visible.

Like most other cuckoos, Shining Bronze-Cuckoos don’t build nests. Instead, they lay their eggs in the nest of another bird species and leave the other species to raise their young. Shining Bronze-Cuckoos usually choose the nests of thornbills, gerygones, scrubwrens, or fairy-wrens. There were several Variegated Fairy-wrens in the same area as this cuckoo. I wonder if some of them were the adoptive parents!

Common name: Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Scientific name: Chrysococcyx lucidis
Length: 16-18 cm
Date spotted: 25 February 2026 (summer)
Location: Manly Dam Park, New South Wales, Australia: 33°46’38.8″S 151°14’49.0″E

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