cuckoos

Hello, I wonder if any zoo / private collection has tried to breed the Cuckoos or other parasitic birds (e. g. the Cowbirds in the Americas), keeping them with host species. According to Zootierliste, 3 European/Russian/Middle Eastern zoos keep the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus (and many...

Having just visited Perth zoo I saw (for the first time in this collection) a rather impressive pair of Channel-billed cuckoos and started to wonder whether there was actually any point in keeping brood parasitic species like this without maintaining the host species in the same enclosure...that...