English folksong:
The Cuckoo's a bonny bird, she sings as she flies,
She brings us good tidings, she tells us no lies.
She eats the little birds' eggs to keep her voice clear,
And never sings 'cuckoo' till summer is near.
Anthea Fleming
On 24/11/2010 9:29 PM, Chris wrote:
Hi all, just wanted to pass on a fascinating observation of a cuckoo eating an
egg from New Zealand. I knew they would remove eggs from a nest but wasn't
aware eating them was included.
Regards,
Chris
Sent from my iPhone
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Date: 24 November 2010 18:40:50 AEST
To: BIRDING-NZ<>
Subject: [BIRDING-NZ] BirdingNZ.net Alert: Shining-bronze cuckoo eating an egg
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Hello BIRDING-NZ,
Brent Stephenson has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website.
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Here's the text of the post:
Hi all,
Also whilst doing bird counts today I looked up to see a shining-bronze
cuckoo about 3m away from me. The bird was an adult and it had an egg in
its bill! I'm guessing the bird was a female and had just laid its egg in
a nest and removed one of the hosts eggs. The bird had clearly cracked one
side of the egg with its bill, and was holding it upright, with its beak at
a 45 degree angle. It was clearly swallowing the contents of the egg, and
once the shell was empty discarded it, then wiped it's bill clean.
From the look of the egg it was definitely not a grey warbler, nor a grey
fantail (both these species have eggs with speckles). It wasn't a dunnock
either - not blue enough, more greeny. The only species which springs to
mind and matches is silvereye...be keen if anyone recognises the species.
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Full details and another photo on my http://b1rder.blogspot.com.
Cheers,
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