In the dark nest, a red-flanked bushrobin host attempting twice to place food onto the wing patch of the Horsfield's hawk cuckoo chick by mistake(26.6MB, 00:00:05)Shot Date: 2005/07/19 Shot Location: Oyama, Shizuoka | ||
 | species Cuculus fugax Key Words | |
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In the dark nest, a red-flanked bushrobin host attempting twice to place food onto the wing patch of the Horsfield's hawk cuckoo chick by mistake(26.6MB, 00:00:05)Shot Date: 2005/07/19 Shot Location: Oyama, Shizuoka | ||
| species Cuculus fugax Key Words | |
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Animalia >Chordata >Aves >Cuculiformes >Cuculidae >Cuculus >
Host parents occasionally try to feed onto the 'gape' patch in the dark nests, typical of those of the red-flanked bushrobin. Since bushrobin parents do nothing at all with their bills full of prey except feeding, they are likely to mistake the patch as a gape. Taken via an IR sensitive camera.
Tanaka KD, Morimoto G, Ueda K, 2005. Yellow wing-patch of a nestling Horsfield's hawk cuckoo Cuculus fugax induces miscognition by hosts: mimicking a gape? J. Avian Biol. 36: 461-464 [DOI: 10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03439.x]
Tanaka KD, Ueda K, 2005. Horsfield's hawk-cuckoo nestlings simulate multiple gapes for begging. Science 308: 653 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1109957]
(Data No.momo060120cf02a)
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