Nicholas B. Davies

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(12), Avian ecology and behavior(11), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(8), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(7), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(4)

Publications29 total

Games by David Blagden, Mark de Rond, David Brailsford, Nicholas B. Davies, Laure-Sophie Camilla d'Angelo, A. C. Grayling, Frank Ledwidge, Nicola Padfield, Bar Science & Nature
2018
Games Animals Play
Games·2018Open Access
Female cuckoo calls misdirect host defences towards the wrong enemy
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2017· 76 citedOpen Access
Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive
Scientific Reports·2016· 56 citedOpen Access
REED WARBLER HOSTS FINE‐TUNE THEIR DEFENSES TO TRACK THREE DECADES OF CUCKOO DECLINE
Evolution·2013· 71 citedOpen Access
Hawk mimicry and the evolution of polymorphic cuckoos
Chinese Birds·2013· 47 citedOpen Access
Brood parasitism
Oxford University Press eBooks·2012· 34 cited
Cuckoos Combat Socially Transmitted Defenses of Reed Warbler Hosts with a Plumage Polymorphism
Science·2012· 95 cited
Direct and indirect assessment of parasitism risk by a cuckoo host
Behavioral Ecology·2012· 34 citedOpen Access
A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts
Behavioral Ecology·2011· 110 citedOpen Access
Profile: Mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2010
Social Behaviour
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2010· 72 cited
Does coevolution promote species richness in parasitic cuckoos?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2009· 57 citedOpen Access
Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism
Science·2009· 161 cited
Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism
Current Biology·2009· 192 citedOpen Access
Studying behavioural adaptations
2007· 1 cited
Cuckoos
Current Biology·2007· 1 citedOpen Access
A host-race difference in begging calls of nestling cuckoos<i>Cuculus canorus</i>develops through experience and increases host provisioning
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2006· 55 citedOpen Access
Elliott Coues Award, 2005:
The Auk·2006Open Access
Elliott Coues Award, 2005:
The Auk·2006
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Frequent Co-authors

Justin A. Welbergen(4), Rose Thorogood(4), Tamás Székely(3), M. de L. Brooke(2), Oliver Krüger(2), Alejandro Kacelnik(1), John R. Krebs(1), Jan Parr(1), Jenny E. York(1), Ian R. Hartley(1), T. R. Birkhead(1), Marla B. Sokolowski(1), Andrew Cockburn(1), Bronwyn H. Bleakley(1), Elizabeth Adkins–Regan(1), Raghavendra Gadagkar(1), John M. McNamara(1), David Haig(1), Robert P. Freckleton(1), Bert Hölldobler(1)