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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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Some of the lazier Common Moorhens apparently try to pass the arduous work of raising their chicks on to other species -a paper describes how Little Bitterns are utilized as surrogate parents. .” So, it is definitely a pigeon, not a cuckoo, and my guess is that the cuckoo part of the name hints at the body shape of these species.

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