“Yes cuckoos are cheats, but I think we admire them for getting away with it” (Image: Seb Chandler)
What first drew you to cuckoos?
I’m fascinated by the evolutionary arms race between the cuckoo and the birds that it parasitises. It’s a constant ding-dong battle. And there is always more to learn. We have recently discovered that the UK’s cuckoos winter in the Congo rainforest, thanks to . The birds spend the winter with lowland gorillas in the rainforest, then cross the Sahara during a 60-hour, non-stop flight to the UK. It’s…
