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  • Some eggs show astounding mimicry, being perfect sky-blue matches for the sky-blue eggs of the arrow-marked and white-rumped babblers that the cuckoos were parasitizing; others are flagrant impostors, the wrong size and the wrong color, but they were laid where the cuckoo could have deposited an ostrich’s egg in a hummingbird’s nest, because the host bird bulbuls in this case couldn’t or chose not to distinguish the parasite’s unwanted gift.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

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