Cover Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) lay highly mimetic eggs into great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) nests. Once they hatch, the cuckoo chicks typically evict host eggs and nestmates. There is one cuckoo egg at the bottom of the photo. See Hauber and Moskát, pp. 79–86. Photo by Csaba Moskát.
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