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TextMore About Cuckoo Birds
Cuckoo birds live in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
A newly hatched cuckoo bird will often try to push the
unhatched eggs out of the nest so it can eat more of the
food. Yet each year, different birds accept cuckoo eggs
in their nests.
If you were not related to a cuckoo bird, you would
end up doing all of its chores! Cuckoo birds are so
lazy that they don’t even raise their own children.
Instead, female cuckoos lay their eggs in other
birds’ nests. And even though the baby cuckoo
hatchlings look nothing like the other baby birds in
the nest, their new parents still care for them.
Lazy Birds
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