Cuckoos Reputation

Cuckoo has an undeserved reputation
Actually there should be a celebration
They understand it is best
To lay their eggs in another’s nest
Foster bird raises their young to fruition
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019


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Date: 11/17/2019 11:42:00 AM
Something I did not know - very interesting, but imagine shirking your motherly obligations and love in favour of foster care! Love and hugs, Jennifer.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/18/2019 4:49:00 AM
I read this "trick" cuckoos use, and I laughed.
Date: 11/17/2019 5:43:00 AM
This Limerick dear, Caren, represents a great sad truth for it celebrates the bringing up of cuckoo's offspring by foster parents whose little ones are evicted from their nest by the new comer !
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/18/2019 4:50:00 AM
I did not know she evicted the other eggs though; I thought she included hers. OUCH!
Date: 11/16/2019 7:09:00 PM
i enjoyed raising my own young, but i bet there are some out there that wish they could be like the cuckoo bird... enjoyed this little poetic lesson :) hugs
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/17/2019 4:56:00 AM
Remember the Maizy bird and the elephant who was faithful "one hundred percent?" I bet she was a cuckoo.
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