Our African Cuckoos and their Fork-tailed Drongo hosts star in the “Parenthood” episode of the BBC Natural History Unit’s “Life Story” TV series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The broadcast is at 21h00 GMT on BBC One. The Natural History Unit team visited us in Zambia in September–October 2012 to film, ably assisted in the field by Jeroen Koorevaar. See also lovely photos of cuckoos, drongos and cuckoo trickery in the book accompanying the TV series.
New paper on coevolution and chase-away evolution
Our paper “Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics” has been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.