A clip of a little bird feeding a cuckoo shared by Aviator Anil Chopra has gone viral on Twitter. Sharing the clip the user wrote that there is no old age home for birds like human beings. However, replying to his tweet Indian Forest Service officer Parween Kaswan has shared an interesting fact about cuckoos on his Twitter handle. He reposted the clip and wrote that the cuckoos are brooding parasites and they don’t make nests. They, rather look for other’s nests. He further revealed that the female cuckoos even lay eggs in other’s nests and run away. The tweet further reads, “They also kill kids of the host also. Host bird raises them as their own and know about reality late. The small bird here is actually older.”
Not at all true. Bigger is a cuckoo, a brooding parasite. They don’t make nest. Rather look for other nests. Female lay eggs in other's nest & run away. Cuckoo kill kids of host also. Host bird raise them as their own & know about reality late. Small bird here is actually older. https://t.co/kqPBsQM9gG— Parveen Kaswan (@ParveenKaswan) September 23, 2021
The post has garnered over 27400 views and tons of comments on the microblogging site. A user commented, “Whatever cuckoo bird does its nature but actually the person who shared the video tried to say how that little one is feeding. The point is this is how that little one is doing for her. Cuckoo is a parasite according to you but God made her like this. It’s nature, sir.”
Watever cuckoo bird does it's nature but actually the person who shared vedio tried to say how that little one is feeding. Point is this how that little one is doing for her. Cuckoo is a parasite according to u but God made her like this. It's nature sir.— Sam (@saima27285037) September 23, 2021
Another user tweeted, “Bigger one doesn’t look like a cuckoo.”
Bigger one doesn't looks like cuckoo….— tarun bhatnagar🇮🇳 (@tarunrnb) September 23, 2021
The IFS officer often shares informative tweets and interesting facts about birds and animals on his social media handle. Earlier on World Rhino Day i.e. September 22, he shared information about Rhinos and its 5 species in the world – white rhino, Black rhino, Sumatran rhino, greater one-horned rhino (Indian rhino) and Javan rhinos.
It is #WorldRhinoDay. There are 5 species of Rhino in world. Among them the Black, #Sumatran and #Javan rhinos (which was once found naturally in India also) are critically endangered. And Indian rhino is Vulnerable. Here one such standing in its habitat with all the glory. pic.twitter.com/XQv2qqnnyv— Parveen Kaswan (@ParveenKaswan) September 22, 2021
The Sumatran rhino is the smallest of the rhinoceros species. It once roamed across Asia as far as India, but its numbers have shrunk drastically due to deforestation and poaching. In 2019 last Sumatran #rhinoceros died in Malaysia. Species is now extinct from one more range. pic.twitter.com/YBg5HB8CDM— Parveen Kaswan (@ParveenKaswan) September 22, 2021
In another tweet, he wrote that the Javan rhino got extinct from India in the first decade of the 20th century only and it was once widespread in the northeast. While the Sumatran rhino is the smallest of the rhinoceros species and roamed across Asia, the last Sumatran rhino died in Malaysia in 2019.
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