Sentence examples for each cuckoo from inspiring English sources

Careful study of this and several other cuckoos indicates, however, that despite the wide range of hosts recorded, a few host species bear most of the load of raising the young of each cuckoo species.

The fitness function measures the performance of each cuckoo egg as a solution to the UFLP.

First, each cuckoo lays one egg at a time and dumps its egg in randomly chosen nest.

Yang (2010) simplifies the general implementation of the CS algorithm by using the following simple representation: each cuckoo egg in a host nest represents a solution and each cuckoo can only lay one egg which represents one solution.

The fitness value for each cuckoo egg is computed using the fitness function represented in Eq. (6).

In this nature, each cuckoo lays about 5 to 20 eggs; the numbers are the maximum and minimum numbers of eggs laid at a time.

Each female cuckoo consistently lays eggs of one colour pattern and must therefore parasitize a particular host species.

Parasites that are too successful, therefore, harm themselves, for each female cuckoo needs several nests of the same host species for her eggs.

Each female common cuckoo lays eggs of a particular shape and coloration throughout her life, but the eggs of different females vary widely.

From left: meadow pipit Antus pratensis, brambling Fringilla montifringilla, great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus and common redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus (in each clutch, the cuckoo egg is slightly larger).

She can't adapt her egg colour at will to match the eggs of her host, but each race of cuckoo specialises in parasitising certain birds.