The common cuckoo bird is an excellent example of such a consequence.

The bird in question was the common cuckoo.

Common Cuckoos in their first autumn have variable plumage.

Common Cuckoos first breed at two years old.

Common Cuckoos feature in a number of traditional rhymes.

Unlike the Common Cuckoo, it does not destroy the host's egg.

The Common Cuckoo is a well-cited example of a parasitic species.

The Common cuckoo does not make a nest of its own, and they do not bring up their own young.

It is a host of the Common Cuckoo.

In Britain, we have just one, the Common Cuckoo.

Bombus campestris is a very common cuckoo bumblebee, that can be found in most of Europe.

This 'species' was isolated from the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus).

More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the Common Cuckoos.

Unlike the Common Cuckoo, it has no gentes whose eggs imitate those of a particular host.

The best-known example is the European Common Cuckoo.

Blackcaps are occasionally hosts of the Common Cuckoo, a brood parasite.

During the breeding season, Common Cuckoos often settle on an open perch with drooped wings and raised tail.

The Common Cuckoo is a brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.

In Europe, hearing the call of the Common Cuckoo is regarded as the first harbinger of spring.

The maximum recorded lifespan of a Common Cuckoo in the United Kingdom is 6 years, 11 months and 2 days.

Therefore, both males and females may contribute to the maintenance of Common Cuckoo egg mimicry polymorphism.

There was an "unusually high" frequency of Common Cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised.

This species is slightly larger than the Common Cuckoo at 35-39 cm length, but looks much larger with its broad wings and long narrow tail.

The Common Cuckoo, a brood parasite, provides examples of mimesis both in the adult and in the egg.

Experiments show that the Common Cuckoo will use vocal trickery to mimic the sound of multiple hungry host young in order to solicit more food.