Great spotted cuckoo
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The great spotted cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
Clamator glandarius
Clamator glandarius in a clutch of Corvus cornix - MHNT
Brood parasitism
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Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds, insects and fish. The brood p
Great spotted cuckoo
…Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals. It is widely spread throughout Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. It is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of corvids, in particular the Eurasian magpie. In 1747 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration…
A shiny cowbird chick (left) being fed by a rufous-collared sparrow
Eastern phoebe nest with one brown-headed cowbird egg (at bottom left)
Four clutches of reed warbler eggs, each containing one visibly larger cuckoo egg
The goldeneye often lays its eggs in the nests of other females, one of 74 species of Anseriformes to do so.