Brood Parasites facts
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Superb Fairy-wrens teach their eggs a 'secret password' that the young can sing when they hatch. Those that sing the password get food, and the brood parasite eggs (which don't learn the password) go hungry!
how are parasitoids different from typical brood parasites?
Blue-gray gnatcatchers produce 1 or 2 brood per season, but they build up to 7 nests each year to avoid numerous predators, mite infestation and brood parasites (cowbirds).
What are brood parasites?
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what birds are brood parasites?
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Cuckoo does not build its own nests, because it is a brood parasite. That means that female cuckoo uses nests of other birds to lay her own eggs.
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The term 'Cuckold' came from the fact that cuckoo birds are brood parasites, and leave their eggs in other birds' nests for them to raise as their own.
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Cuckoos are 'brood parasites': they lay eggs in other birds' nests, and their babies kill the other chicks
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The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. The hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season.
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Brown-headed cowbird is brood parasite. That means that female lays eggs inside the nests of 220 different species of birds instead of her own nest. Female produces 30 to 40 eggs during the nesting season and lays one egg per nest.
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The Cuckoo bird is a brood parasite; they lay their eggs in other birds' nests, then abandon them to be raised by unwitting foster parents.
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Cuckoo birds, brood parasites that lay eggs in other birds' nests, are in an evolutionary "egg throwing" war with other species, which are improving their fake-egg spotting skills
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The brood parasite Brown-Headed Cowbird. A bird who lays eggs in other small bird nests, leaving the host to care for their young.
