Great Spotted Cuckoo

08/05/16 Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), a brood parasite that lays it's eggs in Corvid nests, mainly in Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) in Cyprus. The female can deposit between one to six eggs in the hosts nest and can deposit a total of twelve to twenty four eggs in a season. When mating the male presents their favoured food such as Caterpillars or Grasshoppers to the female. Plenty of Great Spotted Cuckoo at Anarita, Paphos at the moment.

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