Mimetic Eggs (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Mimetic Eggs

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Mimetic eggs of the parasitic common cuckoo differ in size but not in color or shape in the nests of common redstarts in Finland.

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Photo by Dr. Tomas Grim

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