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Provisioning rates by dunnocks, robins and reed warblers to a single blackbird or song thrush chick, whose begging was accompanied by playback of either reed warbler-cuckoo begging calls or dunnock-cuckoo begging calls.
| host species (no. of nests) | mean feeding visits per hour (±1 s.e.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| reed warbler-cuckoo playback | dunnock-cuckoo playback | Wilcoxon signed-rank test | |
| dunnock (n=7) | 2.1±0.5 | 3.7±0.4 | p=0.041 |
| robin (n=7) | 9.0±0.8 | 7.0±0.8 | p=0.034 |
| reed warbler (n=11) | 17.7±2.2 | 15.1±1.6 | p=0.052 |
