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| Fledged juvenile cuckoo |
Sunday 1 July 2018
July 2018 The awsome Juvenile Cuckoo
This icon of Spring the Cuckoo is such a fascinating bird. They have an amazing lifestyle. The more you read about them the more interesting they become. How their eggs match the particular host species. They resemble Sparrowhawks to fluster their hosts. Their chick pushes out the other chicks with its back. Their call resembles a nest full of the hosts hungry chicks. The migration they undertake. What a beautiful highly evolved bird. I just love them.
This one was being fed by Reed Warblers at Slimbridge WWT. It stayed undercover in the vegetation most of the time, but occasionally popped out enough to grab a few images.
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