The egg's color is reddish orange. The size of the eggs are a little over four inches. The female has a habit of laying her eggs in other nest . She chooses to lay her eggs in an area where it is dry. Both parents share in the nest chores and feed their chicks on regurgitated insects.
Cuckoos consume large quanties of hairy caterpillars.
The female cuckoo replaces a host bird's egg with one of her own for incubatio . The size of the eggs are a little over four inches. It also comes to Texas during the spring time . Twelve inches long, it is brown and white below and flashes rufous primaries in flight. When it is an adult it weighs about a pound a pound and a half .