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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

10,000 Birds

Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation. The Lesser Coucal resents the comparison with parasitic cuckoos – it admits that as a fellow cuckoo species, it is related to them but takes care to bring up its chicks on its own.

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