The best place to start would be with the classis papers by Margret A. Vince
Vince, M.A. (1964) Social facilitation of hatching in bobwhitre quail. Animal Behaviour 12, p531-534
and Vince, M.A. (1966) Artificial acceleration of hatching in quail embryos. Animal Behaviour 14, p389-394
and the work of Gilber Gottlieb
Gottlieb G (1971) Development of species identification in birds.; An enquiry into parental determinants of perception, Univ of Chicago Press. Chicago.