Sentence examples for host birds from inspiring English sources

Host birds use two techniques.

But the host birds aren't helpless.

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The host birds then raise the invader as their own, often to the detriment of the host birds' own chicks.

The better the cuckoo disguises its eggs and itself, the more host birds improve their ability to spot the impostor.

Regardless of the mechanism, sporozoites of the avian Eimeria also invade the same specific sites in foreign host birds that they invade in the natural host.

The cuckoo finch finds better ways to mimic the host bird's eggs, and the host bird responds with new methods of distinguishing the cuckoo finch's eggs from its own.

New research suggests the cuckoo has another trick it uses to ruffle its victims' feathers.Common cuckoos usually lay a single egg in the nest of a host bird.

The insect, usually a certain species of mosquito, takes a blood meal from the infected host bird or mammal and shortly thereafter bites a human, thus transmitting the virus.

And if a host bird species starts rejecting cowbird eggs, the cowbird can easily switch to exploit another.

In this case, the host bird can either get rid of the egg, or simply abandon the nest and build a completely new nest.