cuckoo mockingbird cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests when they hatch, they push the other eggs out of the nest, and the "host" bird will take care of the cuckoo chick, not realising what has happened -or- it will live with the other birds, but because it's bigger than all of them, shoves them out of the way, gets most of the food 051217 what's it to you? who go blather from