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To: SeekAndFind

Big Bird? Is it named after the cuckoo which survives by brood parasitism where the mother bird lays her eggs in another bird's nest. Often the chick will end up bigger than the surrogate "parents" demanding more and more food, starving the "parents'" actual offspring.

9 posted on 10/05/2012 7:25:57 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Government is the only thing that we all belong to"=implicit repeal of the 13th amendment for all.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Starlings are the same way. I see robins feeding near adult starlings around the yard every spring.


11 posted on 10/05/2012 7:29:05 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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