Automatic identification of bird females using egg phenotype
M. Sulc, A. E. Hughes, J. Troscianko, G. Stetkova, P. Prochazka, M. Pozgayova, L. Pialek, R. Pialkova, V. Brlik, M. Honza
This study uses phenotypic and genetic data to identify individual common cuckoo females through egg appearance, finding that supervised methods can reliably assign eggs to mothers without genetic data.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · Aug 25, 2021Peer-reviewedEcology