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Cuckoo

Author : Nick Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409534
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Cuckoo written by Nick Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted biologist's careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of years. The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cuckoos rather than their own offspring? Early observers who noticed a little warbler feeding a monstrously large cuckoo chick concluded the cuckoo's lack of parental care was the result of faulty design by the Creator, and that the hosts chose to help the poor cuckoo. These quaint views of bad design and benevolence were banished after Charles Darwin proposed that the cuckoo tricks the hosts in an evolutionary battle, where hosts evolve better defenses against cuckoos and cuckoos, in turn, evolve better trickery to outwit the hosts. For the last three decades, Davies has employed observation and field experiments to unravel the details of this evolutionary “arms race” between cuckoos and their hosts. Like a detective, Davies and his colleagues studied adult cuckoo behavior, cuckoo egg markings, and cuckoo chick begging calls to discover exactly how cuckoos trick their hosts. For birding and evolution aficionados, The Cuckoo is a lyrical and scientifically satisfying exploration of one of nature's most astonishing and beautiful adaptations.

Life and Behavior of the Cuckoo

Author : Francis Hobart Herrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Life and Behavior of the Cuckoo written by Francis Hobart Herrick and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truth About the Cuckoo

Author : Edgar Percival Chance
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013548420
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Truth About the Cuckoo written by Edgar Percival Chance and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Bizarre Life Cycle of a Cuckoo

Author : Barbara M. Linde
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433970465
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Bizarre Life Cycle of a Cuckoo written by Barbara M. Linde and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many species of cuckoo lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. After the young cuckoo hatches, it may eject the other babies from the nest so it can thrive. Readers learn these and other amazing facts about the life cycle of the cuckoo through engaging and information text. Colorful photographs engage readers in the easy-to-read explanations. Fact boxes add even more weird information about the cuckoo, and graphic organizers enhance readers’ understanding of science content.

The Cuckoo's Egg

Author : Cliff Stoll
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668048167
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Cuckoo's Egg written by Cliff Stoll and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this white-knuckled true story that is “as exciting as any action novel” (The New York Times Book Review), an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatens national security and leads all the way to the KGB. When Cliff Stoll followed the trail of a 75-cent accounting error at his workplace, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it led him to the presence of an unauthorized user on the system. Suddenly, Stoll found himself crossing paths with a hacker named “Hunter” who had managed to break into sensitive United States networks and steal vital information. Stoll made the dangerous decision to begin a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a high-stakes game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases, one that eventually gained the attention of the CIA. What started as simply observing soon became a game of cat and mouse that ultimately reached all the way to the KGB.

Cuckoo

Author : Toshiyuki Yoshino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788921000057
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuckoo written by Toshiyuki Yoshino and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life cycle, behavior patterns, and habitats of cuckoo birds.

The Strange Life Cycle of a Cuckoo

Author : ANNA. MCDOUGAL
Publisher : Scientific American Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781725350847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Strange Life Cycle of a Cuckoo written by ANNA. MCDOUGAL and published by Scientific American Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many cuckoo mothers outsource their parenting by laying their eggs in the nests of other birds! Then, once a young cuckoo hatches, it may kick other bird babies out of the nest so it can get more food! These incredible facts engage readers from the first page of this colorful volume. The main text includes information about this strange life cycle as well as their habitat, habits, and diet. Fun fact boxes give even more weird information and a graphic organizer enhances readers' understanding of what they have read.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Author : Ken Kesey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101209046
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest written by Ken Kesey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s. In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax. “BRILLIANT!”—Time “A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!”—Mark Schorer “Mr. Kesey has created a world that is convincing, alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a large, robust talent, and he has written a large, robust book.”—Saturday Review

Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds, and Their Allies

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds, and Their Allies written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bent's Life Histories series is the most comprehensive and reliable collection of information ever compiled on the behavior of birds -- a must for ornithologists, amateur bird-watchers, naturalists and anyone for whom an involvement with birds doesn't end with identification. Bent gives careful, detailed resumes of virtually everything known about the life-cycles and habits of hundreds of birds: field marks and plumage, courtship, nesting, care of young, voice, enemies, food, migration, eggs, winter ranges, and many other topic. In addition, each volume is profusely illustrated with live photographs. It is unlikely that a work of such thoroughness (originally published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution) will ever be superseded or even equalled. The volumes will serve perpetually both as essential reference works and as superlative introductions to the world of birds. 59 species including whippoorwills, nighthawks, pauraque, parrots, kingfishers, swifts, anis, the trogon, roadrunners, poowills, many more. Coverage of nesting, courtship, food habits, enemies, voice, winter habits and more.

The Cuckoo

Author : Oldřich Mikulica
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780995567306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Cuckoo written by Oldřich Mikulica and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know Cuckoos as the harbingers of spring - whose haunting calls proclaim the birds own name across fields and reedbeds. A bird much more often heard than actually seen, and often mistaken for a hawk or falcon when briefly glimpsed in flight. Cuckoos are also well known, perhaps even infamous, for their habit of laying their own eggs into the nests of much smaller species, such as reed warblers, who are then doomed to raise the enormous cuckoo chick rather than their own young, and whose eggs are ruthlessly thrown from the nest by the cuckoo hatchling. But how does this complex behaviour act out in nature, and how did it evolve? What are the cuckoo's special tricks and what counter-measures have the host birds developed to resist the depredations of cuckoos? In this book the authors delve into the stories behind what we see, and into the complex and ever evolving evolutionary arms race by which the nest parasite and its hosts constantly try to leapfrog each other into prime position. The natural history of the cuckoo-host struggle is illuminated with detailed explanations of the results of behavioural and ecological research to provide a comprehensive, but highly readable, account in which an insight into one puzzle constantly reveals a new question begging an answer. The whole story is brought vividly to life through the astonishing photographs of Oldo Mikulica, who has watched cuckoos and their various hosts from hides for almost four decades. The result is a unique and beautiful book which both informs and delights.

Life Histories of North American [birds].: Cuckoos, goatsuckers, hummingbirds and their allies

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Life Histories of North American [birds].: Cuckoos, goatsuckers, hummingbirds and their allies written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bird Love

Author : Wenfei Tong
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208905
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Bird Love written by Wenfei Tong and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birds Bird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks. It delves into the reasons why some species, such as the wattled jacana, rely on males to do all the childcare, while others, such as cuckoos and honeyguides, dump their eggs in the nests of others to raise. For some birds, reciprocal promiscuity pays off: both male and female dunnocks will rear the most chicks by mating with as many partners as possible. For others, long-term monogamy is the only way to ensure their offspring survive. The book explores the wide variety of ways birds make sure they find a mate in the first place, including how many male birds employ elaborate tactics to show how sexy they are. Gathering in leks to display to females, they dance, pose, or parade to sell their suitability as a mate. Other birds attract a partner with their building skills: female bowerbirds rate brains above beauty, so males construct elaborate bowers with twig avenues and cleared courtyards to impress them. Looking at the differing levels of parenting skills across species around the world, we see why a tenth of bird species, including the fairy-wrens of Australia, have helpers at the nest who forgo their own reproduction to assist the breeding pair; how brood parasites and their hosts have engaged in evolutionary arms races; and how monogamous pairs share—or relinquish—their responsibilities. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, Bird Love is a celebration of the global diversity of avian reproductive strategies.

The Cuckoo Syndrome

Author : Andrea Anderson Polk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637630417
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Cuckoo Syndrome written by Andrea Anderson Polk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there someone in your life who tries to monopolize your time and consume your energy? Or someone who leaves you feeling confused or misunderstood, but you cannot put your finger on exactly how or why? Is there someone with whom you are unable to have a rational conversation and things seem very complicated? Maybe this person is never satisfied, no matter how much you try to love, help, and please them. Are you the one doing all the work in a relationship? In The Cuckoo Syndrome, Andrea Anderson Polk, a licensed professional counselor, helps us fend off the cuckoos—unhealthy relationships, toxic thinking, and self-sabotaging behavior—in order to find our identity in God and discover new purpose, vision, and meaning in our lives. We know the cuckoo bird as a colorful wooden figurine that pops out of a clock and chirps the hours of the day to the delight of children and adults alike. In reality, the cuckoo bird is a parasite—invading the nest of other birds, destroying the eggs already present, and fooling the family into raising an ever-demanding, never-satisfied cuckoo chick. Polk, a licensed professional counselor, compares cuckoo birds—nature’s infamous imposter—to the human experience, situations, and relationships demonstrating haunting confusion and unnecessary suffering. Cuckoos can invisibly sabotage our most intimate relationships, our ministries, and our careers—our deepest desires. In The Cuckoo Syndrome, Polk gives us new insight and ways to fend off these cuckoos that invade our “nests” with their devious disguises. Cuckoos can take many forms. There is the cuckoo of avoiding emotion, the fear cuckoo, the stress cuckoo, the shame cuckoo, the unresolved grief cuckoo, the perfectionism cuckoo, the counselor cuckoo, and probably the most insidious cuckoo of all: the religion cuckoo. Drawing from a depth of study in scripture, science, and psychology, Polk breaks us free from the cuckoo’s snare by teaching us to embrace the desires of our heart as we uncover the truth of who we are, who others are, and who God is. We can learn to establish great joy in our identity by committing ourselves to discover meaning in suffering and understanding how our pain is the genuine catalyst for purpose.

Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo

Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848543824
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo written by Michael McCarthy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could see it as a whole, if they all arrived in a single flock, say, we would be truly amazed: sixteen million birds. Swallows, martins, swifts, warblers, wagtails, wheatears, cuckoos, chats, nightingales, nightjars, thrushes, pipits and flycatchers pouring into Britain from sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the enduring wonders of the natural world. Each bird faces the most daunting of journeys -navigating epic distances, dependent on bodily fuel reserves. Yet none can refuse. Since pterodactyls flew, twice-yearly odysseys have been the lot of migrant birds. For us, for millennia, the Great Arrival has been celebrated. From The Song of Solomon, through Keats' Ode To a Nightingale, to our thrill at hearing the first cuckoo call each year, the spring-bringers are timeless heralds of shared seasonal joy. Yet, migrant birds are finding it increasingly hard to make the perilous journeys across the African desert. Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo is a moving call to arms by an impassioned expert: get outside, teach your children about these birds, don't let them disappear from our shores and hearts.

The Wilson Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Wilson Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cuckoos

Author : Robert B. Payne
Publisher : Bird Families of the World
ISBN 13 : 0198502133
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Cuckoos written by Robert B. Payne and published by Bird Families of the World. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Avian Brood Parasitism

Author : Manuel Soler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319731386
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Avian Brood Parasitism written by Manuel Soler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any book in the 21st century. This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fascinating field of avian brood parasitism. The topics covered include conspecific brood parasitism; evolution and phylogenetic history of avian brood parasites; parasitic behaviour used by brood parasites; adaptations and counter-adaptations of brood parasites and their hosts at every stage of the breeding cycle (before laying, egg, chick and fledgling stages); factors affecting the evolution of host defences and parasitic attacks; the role of phenotypic plasticity in host defences; mechanisms driving egg recognition and rejection; evolution of nest sharing or nest killing by brood parasite chicks; begging behaviour in parasitized nests and food delivery by host adults; and recognition of conspecifics by juvenile brood parasites. This volume provides a comprehensive reference resource for readers and researchers with an interest in birds, behaviour and evolution, as well as a source of hypotheses and predictions for future investigations into this dynamic subject.