A lot of legends about cuckoos go around and some people try to believe it. In fact, the cuckoos that live in Eurasia and America, toss eggs only 12 species of birds, and not all in a row, as there is such an opinion.
If a cuckoo intends to toss an egg into someone else's nest, she tries to scare away the owner, making sounds similar to the sounds of a hawk. To lay eggs, cuckoos build their nests in remote and lonely places in the forest.
To whom does the cuckoo lay eggs?
A large spotted cuckoo, whose growth reaches 40 centimeters, lays eggs in the raven family, for example, in jays or magpies. These parents take care of the chicks, and if the life of the chicks is not arranged, then the parents can throw the chick out of the nest, completely destroy the nest and eat the eggs or the chicks themselves.
What is surprising is that cuckoos living in the tropics of Africa do not throw eggsand they build one common nest, where about 20 individuals gather and lay eggs, which old birds look after, hatch and look after them. The weight of a cuckoo egg weighs only from 2 to 3 grams, which is a distinctive feature of it from other bird species. Food for cuckoo birds is caterpillars, flies, beetles, snails, larvae.
Before flying to another area, birds are actively gaining weight, so you have to overcome great distances. Some species of cuckoos are able to move quickly on the ground, and the flight speed reaches 40 km / h.
