Within-season dispersal does not protect re-nesting great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) from repeated common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) parasitism

The co-evolutionary arms race between brood parasites and their hosts involves stepwise adaptive changes on the side of the parasites as well as hosts. In response to avian brood parasitism, host females may eject a parasitic egg, bury the parasitized clutch or desert it. After nest desertion, femal...

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