Fork-tailed drongos have a signature color and pattern on their eggs, which helps them avoid getting duped by African cuckoos. Hans Stieglitz via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Cuckoos have ...

Egg 'signatures' will allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds. African cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed drongo, which scientists predict can ...

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Two drongo clutches parasitised by different African cuckoo females. In each clutch of eggs the cuckoo egg is on the right. A fork-tailed drongo nest that has been parasitised by an African cuckoo ...

Cuckoos infiltrate the nests of other birds with similar-looking eggs, but drongos have evolved a highly effective way to snuff out the imposters. Their ability to recognise the uniquely patterned ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has discovered an ingenuous trick by the African cuckoo finch to transfer her parental responsibilities to other birds. ...

There are plenty of birds that are widely referenced in popular culture today, whether as a sports team name or as the origin for an ubiquitous turn of phrase—looking at you, ugly duckling. But few ...

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