In August 1996, a friend informed me that she had a young Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus in her suburban garden in Knaresborough, Yorkshire. I went to investigate and saw the bird sitting on bare ground amongst several slices of white bread. A Dunnock Prunella modularis soon appeared, picked pieces of bread from the slices and offered several to the Cuckoo, which eagerly swallow
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