Brood Parasite Collection

Common cuckoo, artwork C016 / 3231
Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), artwork. Common cuckoos are brood parasites. That is, they lay their eggs in the nest of other birds

Common cuckoo brood parasite, artwork C013 / 6350
Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) chick being fed by a meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). Common cuckoos are brood parasites. That is, they lay their eggs in the nest of other birds

Common cuckoo, 19th century artwork C013 / 6349
Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). Plate 139 from Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841) by William MacGillivray

British large Blue butterfly colln. 1865
Male Large Blue butterfly, Maculinea eutryphon, collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species

Bronzed Cowbird, Molothrus aeneus, young in nest of Bewicks Wren, Brood Parasit, Starr County, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA

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