Figure 1: Comparisons of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo and fairy-wren eggs. Figure 2: Kaplan–Meier estimate of the survival functions of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo chicks, shining bronze-cuckoo ...

The question we asked was simple: is there any evidence of evolutionary race in the Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo to mimic host eggs? This cuckoo is an interesting candidate to study this question ...

It was a good call. The bird in their nest was a Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo. These birds are “brood parasites” – they lay their eggs in those of other birds, passing on their parenting ...