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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: mychael on 19/06/2010 07:54:24

Title: If cuckoos have no other birds to parasitise, can they build their own nest?
Post by: mychael on 19/06/2010 07:54:24

I'm aware that some though not all of the Cuckoo family of birds are brood parasitic (laying their eggs in other birds nest). If a pair of brood parasitic cuckoo's are isolated so they have no other nests to use will they breed and successfully raise their own young?



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