Robin shares food with cuckoo

They say birds of a feather flock together, but what are the chances of a robin and cuckoo sharing a bit of lunch?

A County Donegal woman has captured the moment in her garden.

"We noticed the big bird at the bottom of the garden and, at first, we thought it must have been a sparrow hawk, but we realised it wasn't when the wee birds weren't afraid of it," Maureen Carr, from Kilcar, said.

"It was then that we noticed the robin kept going back to different spots round the garden and was actually feeding it [the cuckoo]."

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