Confronted, not by little warblers but a very large cuckoo chick, she didn’t bat an eyelid and dropped food into its gaping beak, believing it was one of her own offspring. The image was taken ...

Once hatched, the cuckoo chick will eject all other eggs from the ... with iridescent green plumage and a striped chest. As with all native birds, the surest way to attract them to your garden ...

Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests, fooling them into believing the chick is one of their young. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the Reed Warblers' nest ...

THIS tiny reed warbler hasn’t clocked that the open-mouthed hungry cuckoo is not her chick. The young uninvited dinner guest blagged another meal despite looking huge next to the smaller bird.

Females lay one egg into up to 25 nests each year, and the unsuspecting 'host' birds devote all their attention to raising the cuckoo chicks which ... with dark and white striped underparts ...