Photo of the Month: Golden-bellied Gerygone feeding a Little Bronze Cuckoo
by Tateo Osawa Little Bronze Cuckoos are parasitic nesters. They lay their eggs in the nest of another bird and the other bird hatches the egg and raises the cuckoo chick as its own, continuing to feed and tend to the chick even when the chick dwarfs the parent in size. It’s hard to believe that…