Angela Farnsworth took this fascinating picture at Cilento Park in Nambour, explaining that it's of a juvenile Fan-tailed Cuckoo being fed by its foster parent, a White-browed Scrubwren.
The Cuckoos lay a single egg in a host's nest.
"The chick typically hatches earlier than the host's eggs and then begins to either eject the eggs or the chicks and the parents seem to be unaware of this," Ms Farnsworth said.
"How amazing that they don't recognise that this intruder is not their chick and will happily raise it! The host parents must think they have raised a giant chick!"
-text from ABC Sunshine Coast.
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