<P> This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia , and winters in Africa . It is a brood parasite , which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species , particularly of dunnocks , meadow pipits , and reed warblers . Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts , the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host 's eggs . The adult too is a mimic , in its case of the sparrowhawk ; since that species is a predator , the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so . </P>
<P> This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia , and winters in Africa . It is a brood parasite , which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species , particularly of dunnocks , meadow pipits , and reed warblers . Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts , the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host 's eggs . The adult too is a mimic , in its case of the sparrowhawk ; since that species is a predator , the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so . </P>
where does the cuckoo bird lay its eggs
where does the cuckoo bird lay its eggs
in the nests of other bird species , particularly of dunnocks , meadow pipits , and reed warblers
in the nests of other bird species , particularly of dunnocks , meadow pipits , and reed warblers