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Project properties |
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| Title | Tracking cuckoos: how do they select a suitable host nest to lay their egg? |
| Group | Behavioural Ecology |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 30-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Sjouke A. Kingma
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| Examiner(s) | Marc Naguib |
| Contact info | sjouke.kingma@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/03/10 |
| End date | 2030/03/10 |
| Description | Cuckoos lay their eggs in nests of other species who subsequently take care of it. How do cuckoos find and select a nest to lay their egg in? What do they base their choice on? Using radio-telemetry, we will follow levaillant’s cuckoos equipped with radio-transmitters to find this out. |
| Used skills | Fieldwork, behaviour observations, radio-tracking, statistics |
| Requirements | The fieldwork takes place in the savanna of Eswatini in Southern Africa; an adventurous attitude is an advantage: the fieldsite is beautiful but remote and accommodation is basic. |