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Description: | This Robin's nest with a cuckoo egg (top) was collected at Birtley Fell in 1882. A female Cuckoo will normally lay it's eggs in a nest belonging to the same species as her own host parents, so the bird that laid this egg was probably raised by Robins. The Cuckoo's eggs have evolved to closely match the colour and pattern of its hosts eggs. Cuckoos that favour different host species will have eggs that look very different to each other.
, Phase: egg, Form: nest | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.vertebratezoology.50092 | Go to resource |
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