scholarly journals El motivo literario del cuco (Cuculus canorus) en la literatura europea: análisis y traducción al castellano del Conflictus Veris et Hiemis y el Versus de cuculo (Alcuino de York)

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 13-42
Author(s):  
Sergio Guadalajara
Keyword(s):  
Cuculus Canorus

El cuco común (Cuculus canorus) posee diversas significaciones simbólicas en la tradición cultural europea. Entre ellas, quizás la más frecuente es la que describe a esta ave como heraldo de la primavera. Este artículo presenta un estudio comparado de la simbología asociada al cuco en la literatura clásica y las letras castellanas. Todo ello permitirá analizar la utilización alegórica de esta ave en dos de las composiciones más conocidas de Alcuino de York (el Versus de cuculo y el Conflictus Veris et Hiemis), en las que ocupa una posición central. Se ofrece, asimismo, la primera traducción al castellano de ambos poemas.

Cuckoo chicks evicting their nest mates: coincidental observations by Edward Jenner in England and Antoine Joseph Lottinger in France

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer G. Sealy ◽  
Mélanie F. Guigueno
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Cuculus Canorus ◽  
Common Cuckoo ◽  
Cuckoo Chick ◽  
The Common ◽  
Made In ◽  
Royal Society Of London

For centuries, naturalists were aware that soon after hatching the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) chick became the sole occupant of the fosterer's nest. Most naturalists thought the adult cuckoo returned to the nest and removed or ate the fosterer's eggs and young, or the cuckoo chick crowded its nest mates out of the nest. Edward Jenner published the first description of cuckoo chicks evicting eggs and young over the side of the nest. Jenner's observations, made in England in 1786 and 1787, were published by the Royal Society of London in 1788. Four years before Jenner's observations, in 1782, Antoine Joseph Lottinger recorded eviction behaviour in France and published his observations in Histoire du coucou d'Europe, in 1795. The importance of Lottinger's and Jenner's observations is considered together.

Rejection of common cuckoo Cuculus canorus eggs in relation to female age in the bluethroat Luscinia svecica

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trond Amundsen ◽  
Paul T. Brobakken ◽  
Arne Moksnes ◽  
Eivin Røskaft
Keyword(s):  
Cuculus Canorus ◽  
Common Cuckoo ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Luscinia Svecica

scholarly journals Heterospecific alarm-call recognition in two warbler hosts of common cuckoos

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1149-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangping Yu ◽  
Hailin Lu ◽  
Wei Sun ◽  
Wei Liang ◽  
Haitao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alarm Call ◽  
Alarm Calls ◽  
Reed Warbler ◽  
Cuculus Canorus ◽  
Common Cuckoo ◽  
Playback Experiments ◽  
Call Recognition ◽  
Accipiter Nisus ◽  
Main Host ◽  
The Common

Abstract Species facing similar selection pressures should recognize heterospecific alarm signals. However, no study has so far examined heterospecific alarm-call recognition in response to parasitism by cuckoos. In this study, we tested whether two sympatric host species of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus, Oriental reed warbler Acrocephalus orientalis (ORW, main host), and black-browed reed warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps (BRW, rare host), could recognize each other’s alarm calls in response to cuckoos. Dummies of common cuckoo (parasite) and Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus (predator) were used to induce and record alarm calls of the two warbler species, respectively. In the conspecific alarm-call playback experiments, ORW responded more strongly to cuckoo alarm calls than to sparrowhawk alarm calls, while BRW responded less strongly to cuckoo alarm calls than to sparrowhawk alarm calls. In the heterospecific alarm-call playback experiments, both ORW and BRW responded less strongly to cuckoo alarm calls than sparrowhawk alarm calls. BRW seemed to learn the association between parasite-related alarm calls of the ORW and the cuckoo by observing the process of ORW attacking cuckoos. In contrast, alarm calls of BRW to cuckoos were rarely recorded in most cases. BRW with low parasite pressure still developed recognition of heterospecific parasite-related alarm call. Unintended receivers in the same community should recognize heterospecific alarm calls precisely to extract valuable information.

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