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asite. A cuckoo that lays her eggs in another cuckoo’s nest is far from the habit of the cowbird who deposits her eggs in the nests of many species. There are cowbirds in South America that take over the nests of other, nest building cowbirds, lay a clutch of eggs, and raise their own young.
If one views with disfavor the semi-parasitic practices of the Virginia cuckoos, it will be wise to switch and think of the favored food of the two cuckoos: tent caterpillars. The literature is full of accounts of severe outbreaks of tent caterpillars that brought cuckoos in large numbers.
It seems that cuckoos have a lining to their stomachs that make them impervious to the spiny hairs on not only tent caterpillars, but others that have stiff, protective spines like the gypsy moth. One ornithologist noted that he had observed one yellow-billed cuckoo consume 36 tent caterpillars in five minutes!
I never saw the cuckoo in the mulberry tree; he stayed hidden among the dull green leaves . In the eye of my memory he was a handsome bird: sleek, long and sinuous. It was enough for me to know he was there. An abundance of yellow squash remains a dilemma for me.
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