The Ecology of Brood Parasitism in Birds

The Insect Societies

1971 • 4,665 citations

An analysis of nesting mortality in birds

1969 • 1,793 citations

Modes of Reproduction in Fishes

1967 • 1,161 citations

Modes of Animal Speciation

1975 • 791 citations

Advantages and Disadvantages of Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) Coloniality

1976 • 527 citations

An Experimental and Teleonomic Investigation of Avian Brood Parasitism

1975 • 480 citations

Photoperiodic and physiological adaptations regulating avian breeding cycles and their ecological significance

1968 • 267 citations

Evolutionary Rates and Host Defenses Against Avian Brood Parasitism

1975 • 259 citations

Host Relations of the Parasitic Cowbirds

2018 • 253 citations

Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers, and Allies

1958 • 224 citations

Evolution of Brood Parasitism in Altricial Birds

1965 • 223 citations

The Advantage of being Parasitized

1968 • 175 citations

Parasitic Egg Laying in the Redhead (Aythya americana) and Other North American Anatidae

1959 • 161 citations

Life Histories of Central American Birds. II. Families Vireonidae, Sylviidae, Turdidae, Troglodytidae, Paridae, Corvidae, Hirundinidae and Tyrannidae. Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 34.Alexander F. Skutch

1961 • 149 citations

Behavioral Defenses to Brood Parasitism by Potential Hosts of the Brown-Headed Cowbird

1976 • 141 citations

Nest-Searching Behavior in the Brown-Headed Cowbird

1975 • 104 citations

VII.—Rejections by Birds of Eggs unlike their own: with Remarks on some of the Cuckoo Problems.

1918 • 94 citations

Cowbird Parasitism in the Kansas Tallgrass Prairie

1978 • 85 citations

Biological and Oological Studies of the Molothrine Cowbirds (Icteridae) of Argentina

1964 • 84 citations

Interspecific Communication Signals in Parasitic Birds

1967 • 80 citations

THE OCCURRENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ANOMALOUS REPRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES IN TWO NORTH AMERICAN NON‐PARASITIC CUCKOOS COCCYZUS SPP.

1975 • 69 citations

The cuckoo's secret,

1922 • 66 citations

INTRASPECIFIC NEST PARASITISM IN THE STARLING STURNUS VULGARIS

1974 • 62 citations

Clutch Size and Numbers of Eggs Laid by Brown-Headed Cowbirds

1965 • 58 citations

The Honey-Guides

2018 • 54 citations

Individual Laying Histories and the Clutch Size and Numbers of Eggs of Parasitic Cuckoos

1973 • 51 citations

Clutch Size, Egg Size, and the Consequences of Single Vs. Multiple Parasitism in Parasitic Finches

1977 • 50 citations

Life History of the Groove-Billed Ani

1959 • 49 citations

The Evolutionary History of the Avian Genus Chrysococcyx

1968 • 48 citations

A Genetic Analysis of Lesser Snow Goose Families

1972 • 46 citations

Cuckoo Hosts in Southern Africa

1967 • 42 citations

ON THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN CUCKOOS

1969 • 40 citations

Further Information of the Host Relations of the Parasitic Cowbirds

1971 • 39 citations

Annual Adult Survival Rates of Blackbirds and Starlings

1971 • 39 citations

Observations on the Breeding Adaptations of the Roadrunner

1973 • 38 citations

The Parasitic Cuckoos of Africa

1949 • 36 citations

XXXVIII.—On the Birds of North and Central Darfur, with Notes on the West‐Central Kordofan and North Nuba Provinces of British Sudan. (Part VI.)

1925 • 36 citations

Zur Entstehung der Mimikry der Kuckuckseier

1924 • 34 citations

Third Decennial Census of Kirtland's Warbler

1972 • 33 citations

Study of Cuckoos and Reed Warblers

1975 • 31 citations

The Effect of Parasitism by the Brown-Headed Cowbird on Empidonax Flycatchers in Michigan

1961 • 31 citations

Egg mimicry in British Cuckoos

1968 • 28 citations

Chance Distribution of Cowbird Eggs

1965 • 26 citations

Prolonged Incubation Behaviour of Red-Winged Blackbird Incubating Several Egg Sizes

1970 • 23 citations

Life and behavior of the cuckoo

1910 • 21 citations

SOME NOTES ON THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE STRIPED CUCKOO

1973 • 16 citations

Cuckoos' Eggs and Evolution

1923 • 16 citations

PARASITISM OF THE MASKED WEAVER PLOCEUS VELATUS ARUNDINACEUS

1961 • 15 citations

The Nidification of Some Common Indian Birds. Part 1

1963 • 15 citations

Alloxenia in Three Sympatric African Species of Cuculus

1967 • 14 citations

The juvenile food-begging call of some fledgling cuckoos—vocal mimicry or vocal duplication by natural selection?

1967 • 12 citations

Nesting Habits of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

1957 • 8 citations

The History of our Knowledge of Avian Brood Parasitism

1965 • 7 citations

Gonadal Responses of Brown-Headed Cowbirds to Long Daylength

1967 • 7 citations

Zwei neueHypochera-Arten aus West-Afrika (Ploceidae, Viduinae)

1972 • 7 citations

Some Records and Field-notes from North-Eastern Tanganyika Territory

1946 • 6 citations

NOTES ON SOME RESIDENT BREEDING BIRDS OF SOUTHWEST KENYA

1966 • 6 citations

XLI.–––On the Pterylosis of the Embryos and Nestlings of Centropus sinensis

1900 • 6 citations

Observations on the Breeding of the Koel

1964 • 5 citations

Zur Frage der Mimikry der Kuckuckseiier

1921 • 4 citations

Beobachtungen über den Kuckuck bei Leipzig aus dem Jahre 1894

1895 • 4 citations

THE EGG OF CUCULUS CANORUS

1905 • 2 citations

The New Zealand Long-Tailed Cuckoo: Nest Parasite or Predator?

1972 • 2 citations