Is it true that a cuckoo doesn’t lay its own eggs? ?

Question

It's like shooting fish in a barrell.

Answer 1

No, it lays its own egg but yes, it's true that it doesn't HATCH its own egg (brood parasite).

They lay their eggs in other (different species) birds' nest and get the other bird to hatch it for them.

It abuses the fairly simplistic instinct of most birds that "as long as it roughly looks like an egg and it's in my nest, I'll hatch it".

The born cuckoo hatchling then throws the other eggs and/or chicks out of the nest and makes sure he receives undivided attention of the parent(s).

See attached pic of a little warbler (Acrocephalus palustri) parent feeding a three times larger cuckoo chick.

Answer 2

so if thats the case, who does it for them?

i cant see this making sense....  

Answer 3

That is not true - they lay their own eggs in another birds nest

Answer 4

Yeh, they get a surrogate hen to lay them.  

Answer 5

NO, but they don't build their own nests, they squat in nests built by other birds.

Answer 6

It lays it egg in other birds nests so they can rear it's young.

When hatched the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the the nest to perish.

It's a lazy bird that doesn't like rearing it's young.

Answer 7

How would any other bird lay the cuckoo's eggs? No, the cuckoo doesn't build it's own nest or raise it's own chicks.  It lays its eggs in another bird's nest, and the chicks are then raised by the host bird.  The cuckoo chicks are much larger than the host bird and will actually push out the other bird's eggs and chicks, leaving only itself to be raised by its blissfully ignorant adoptive parents.

Answer 8

No it is not.

Answer 9

Logically, no.