Host provisioning behavior favors mimetic begging calls in a brood-parasitic cowbird

Cynthia A Ursino, Ros Gloag, Juan C Reboreda, María C De Mársico and Naomi LangmoreHandling Editor

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 2, 328-332

Abstract: Brood-parasitic screaming cowbird nestlings manipulate host parent care via a begging call structure that matches that of the host’s own young. Using playback of calls at nests, we investigated the role of begging call structure in stimulating parental provisioning by a host (baywing) to 2 brood parasites. Baywings provisioned more in response to screaming cowbird calls, which closely match those of its own young, than to shiny cowbird calls, which do not.

Keywords: begging call; brood parasitism; cowbird; mimicry; Molothrus; parental care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/beheco/arx167 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:beheco:v:29:y:2018:i:2:p:328-332.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

Behavioral Ecology is currently edited by Louise Barrett

More articles in Behavioral Ecology from International Society for Behavioral Ecology Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().