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Who parasitizes the endangered Jankowski’s Bunting Emberiza jankowskii?

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posted on 2020-03-10, 11:57 authored by Lishi Zhang, Xudong Li, Jiangping Yu, Shi Li, Weiping Shang, Zheng Han, Yunlei Jiang, Romain Lorrillière

We report nine cases of brood parasitism in the endangered Jankowski’s Bunting Emberiza jankowskii by cuckoos in Inner Mongolia Province, China in 2018 and 2019. DNA-based and morphological evidence suggested that five chicks and four eggs of brood parasites were all Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus, for which the Jankowski’s Bunting is a regular host.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 31172109 and 31670398 to YJ, grant number 31601856 to SL], and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number 2412018QD009 to JY].

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