Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) 👇 The Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is the mysterious wanderer of spring, its soft “cuck-oo” call echoing across meadows and woodlands like a timeless whisper. Sleek and gray with a graceful flight, it glides through the sky with quiet elegance. Yet behind that beauty lies one of nature’s cleverest secrets — the cuckoo never builds its own nest. Instead, it slips its eggs into the nests of other birds, leaving them to raise its young. From Europe to Asia, its h

Brood parasitism: The most well-known cuckoos are brood parasites, meaning they lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species. The cuckoo chick kicks the host's eggs or chicks out of the nest. #america #are #you? #nyc | Joli Mayra

The survival strategy of the large cuckoo: brood parasitism.A common cuckoo chick is feeding by reed warbler adult.#commoncuckoo #birds | Birds of nature