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Cuckoo!

1/9/2012

 
When I visited Namibia a few years ago I was able to take the picture below.  It was quite a funny sight. A Burchell's Starling is feeding a juvenile Great Spotted Cuckoo a berry. What you're not able to see is that the cuckoo actually repeatedly declined the berry by spitting it out. The surrogate parent kept on trying, but I guess the youngster wanted something with a bit of a bite. It wasn't until the Starling returned with a grasshopper, that the Cuckoo accepted the offering. What a baby! 
This picture was recently published in the  'Cuckoos of the World'.
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