Feeding the Right Habits
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What’s wrong with this picture? An adult Reed Warbler is feeding a humungous chick that is straddling the entirety of the tiny warbler nest. That’s because the chick isn’t a Reed Warbler. It’s a Common Cuckoo, a European species known for its “brood parasite strategy.” To put it another way, cuckoos are squatters. They force other birds to raise their… Read more »