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A cuckoo chick in a reed warbler nest at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. Cuckoos don different disguises to lay eggs in other birds’ nests unmolested, scientists have learned. A well known feature of the cuckoo is its ability to lay eggs that resemble those of its victims Photograph: NB Davies/University of Cambridge/PA

A cuckoo chick in a reed warbler nest at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. Cuckoos don different disguises to lay eggs in other birds’ nests unmolested, scientists have learned. A well known feature of the cuckoo is its ability to lay eggs that resemble those of its victims

Photograph: NB Davies/University of Cambridge/PA

(Source: Guardian)

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