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Meet the man who can fool cuckoos

Nick Davies is professor of behavioural ecology at the University of Cambridge and an expert on cuckoos. Based at Wicken Fen, the National Trust reserve in Cambridgeshire, Davies has unravelled some of the key mysteries of this trickster of the bird world using stuffed cuckoos and dummy birds eggs. His book Cheating By Nature is published by Bloomsbury.

First broadcast on Midweek, 30 April 2016.

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