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The Marans, French: Poule de Marans, is a French breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for meat and for its dark brown eggs. It originated in or near the port town of Marans , in the département of Charente-Maritime , in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.
The chick will roll the other eggs out of the nest by pushing them with its back over the edge. If the host's eggs hatch before the cuckoo's, the cuckoo chick will push the other chicks out of the nest in a similar way. At 14 days old, the common cuckoo chick is about three times the size of an adult Eurasian reed warbler.
The cuckoo egg hatches earlier than the host eggs, and the cuckoo chick grows faster; in most cases, the chick evicts the eggs and/or young of the host species. The chick has no time to learn this behavior, nor does any parent stay around to teach it, so it must be an instinct passed on genetically. Reed warbler raising the young of a common cuckoo
Jacobin cuckoo: Clamator jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783) 77 Little cuckoo: Coccycua minuta (Vieillot, 1817) 78 Dwarf cuckoo: Coccycua pumila (Strickland, 1852) 79 Ash-colored cuckoo: Coccycua cinerea (Vieillot, 1817) 80 Squirrel cuckoo: Piaya cayana (Linnaeus, 1766) 81 Black-bellied cuckoo: Piaya melanogaster (Vieillot, 1817) 82 Dark-billed cuckoo
The best-known example is the European common cuckoo. The female cuckoo in each case replaces one of the host's eggs with one of her own. The cuckoo egg hatches earlier than the host's, and the chick grows faster; in most cases the cuckoo chick evicts the eggs or young of the host species.
The repellent protects great spotted cuckoo chicks themselves as well as the host's chicks from predators. [7] Carrion crow (Corvus corone corone) chicks survive better if a great spotted cuckoo chick shares their nest. Birds of prey and feral cats less frequently prey on crow's nests that include a great spotted cuckoo chick. Crow chicks ...
The chicken was a historic Breton breed which had nearly disappeared by the late twentieth century. [1] However, starting in 1988 with a rebreeding effort by the Ecomuseum of Rennes, the breed has since recovered. [2] There is an association of Coucou de Rennes chicken producers that has breeding regulations.
The black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) is a New World species in the Cuculidae family. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek . The genus name, kokkuzo , means to call like a common cuckoo , and erythropthalmus is from eruthros , "red" and ophthalmos , "eye".