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Jian Fang, Auteur ; Xudong Li, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Jiangping Yu, Auteur ; Haitao Wang, Auteur ; Guodong Yi, Auteur ; Romain Lorrilliere, Auteur
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Lei Zhang ; Yaqi He ; Ruiyao Ma ; Yiting Jiang ; Dongmei Wan ; Wei LiangCapsule The experimental removal of either the male or female from breeding pairs of Cinereous Tits Parus cinereus revealed that both sexes could increase their nestling provisioning rate to compensate fully for the loss. However, single females[...]
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Virginia E. Abernathy, Auteur ; Wei Liang, AuteurOne of the most efficient defences against obligate brood parasitism in birds is egg ejection, where a host recognises and removes the parasitic egg from the nest. This defence often selects for egg mimicry in parasitic species to reduce the lik[...]
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Xiaoyan Qin, Auteur ; Tingting Liu, Auteur ; Lidan Zhao, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Shuping Zhang, AuteurDaily variation in ambient temperature is marked during the spring at middle and high latitudes, when birds have to physiologically prepare for the subsequent breeding period. The ability of birds to maintain homeostasis during this period is im[...]
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Canchao Yang, Auteur ; Jiajia Wang, Auteur ; Wei Liang, AuteurVisual sensitivity in ultraviolet (UV) light is widespread in the animal kingdom and occurs in all major taxonomic groups, including birds, which possess UV-sensitive photoreceptors and thus perceive UV light and use it in food selection, mate c[...]
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Chentao Wei, Auteur ; Chenxi Jia, Auteur ; Lu Dong, Auteur ; Daiping Wang, Auteur ; Canwei Xia, Auteur ; Yanyun Zhang, Auteur ; Wei Liang, AuteurStudies on the pattern of geographic variation in bird vocalizations can facilitate the understanding of the evolutionary history of species and species differentiation. The Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a non-passerine widely distributed i[...]
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Xin Lu, Auteur ; Tonglei Yu, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Canchao Yang, AuteurColder, unpredictable climates, and reduced food availability at high altitudes impose strong selective pressures that have driven the evolution of avian life histories. To fully understand this issue, data concerning the comparative demography [...]
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Longwu Wang, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Canchao Yang, Auteur ; Shun-Jen Cheng, Auteur ; Yu-Cheng Hsu, Auteur ; Xin Lu, AuteurAvian hosts of brood parasites can evolve anti-parasitic defenses to recognize and reject foreign eggs from their nests. Theory predicts that higher inter-clutch and lower intra-clutch variation in egg appearance facilitates hosts to detect para[...]
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Wei Liang, Auteur ; Yan Cai, Auteur ; Can-Chao Yang, AuteurIn China, many bird species are generally thought to be threatened mainly, or at least partly, by hunting. However, there have been few studies of bird hunting at a local scale. Bird hunting and trade in Nanmao, a remote mountainous village of H[...]
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Hawk mimicry in cuckoos and anti-parasitic aggressive behavior of barn swallows in Denmark and China
Wei Liang, Auteur ; Anders Pape Moller, AuteurHosts of brood parasites defend their nests against parasitism by aggression and subsequently, if parasitized, by rejection of the parasite egg or nestling. Cuckoos have evolved plumage mimicry with convergence towards the phenotype of Accipiter[...]
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Canchao Yang, Auteur ; Bard G. Stokke, Auteur ; Anton Antonov, Auteur ; Yan Cai, Auteur ; Suhua Shi, Auteur ; Arne Moksnes, Auteur ; Eivin Roskaft, Auteur ; Anders P. Moller, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Tomáš Grim, AuteurHow do potential hosts escape detrimental interactions with brood parasites? Current consensus is that hole-nesting and granivorous birds avoid brood parasites, like common cuckoos Cuculus canorus, by their inaccessible nest-sites and food unsui[...]
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Canchao Yang, Auteur ; Anders Pape Moller, Auteur ; Zhijun Ma, Auteur ; Feng Li, Auteur ; Wei Liang, AuteurNest predation is a common cause of reproductive failure. Here, we show for the first time unusually high rates of nest predation on eggs and chicks in nests of the Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis and the brood parasitic Common Cuc[...]
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Canchao Yang, Auteur ; Anton Antonov, Auteur ; Yan Cai, Auteur ; Bard G. Stokke, Auteur ; Arne Moksnes, Auteur ; Eivin Roskaft, Auteur ; Wei Liang, AuteurWe documented brood parasitism by the poorly studied Large Hawk-Cuckoo on a previously unknown host species, the Chinese Babax. Furthermore, we describe a new egg colour for the Large Hawk-Cuckoo. The parasitism rate of Chinese Babax nests over [...]
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Martin Paeckert, Auteur ; Jochen Martens, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Yu-Cheng Hsu, Auteur ; Yue-Hua Sun, Auteur
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Canchao Yang, Auteur ; Longwu Wang, Auteur ; Yu-Cheng Hsu, Auteur ; Anton Antonov, Auteur ; Arne Moksnes, Auteur ; Eivin Roskaft, Auteur ; Wei Liang, Auteur ; Bard G. Stokke, AuteurBirds are capable of seeing the ultraviolet light (UV) spectrum and as a consequence have evolved UV-reflective structures with signalling functions. Avian eggs also reflect in the UV spectrum but the importance of UV egg matching in egg rejecti[...]
