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Egg signatures allow #drongos to identify #cuckoo forgeries almost every time
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-egg-signatures-drongos-cuckoo-forgeries.html

When perfection isn't enough: host egg signatures are an effective defence against high-fidelity African cuckoo #mimicry. By Jess Lund et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1125

"African #cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed #drongo, which can detect and reject cuckoo #eggs from their nest on almost every occasion, despite them on average looking almost identical to drongo eggs."

Egg signatures allow #drongos to identify #cuckoo forgeries almost every time
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-egg-signatures-drongos-cuckoo-forgeries.html

When perfection isn't enough: host egg signatures are an effective defence against high-fidelity African cuckoo #mimicry. By Jess Lund et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1125

"African #cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed #drongo, which can detect and reject cuckoo #eggs from their nest on almost every occasion, despite them on average looking almost identical to drongo eggs."

A Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer) spotted at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, on 20 Nov 2018.

This is a dark coloured insectivorous bird with some extra long tail feathers, and has the interesting ability of being able to mimic the calls of other creatures.

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Malaysia #Birds #Aves #Drongos #Dicruridae

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18597718 ]