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How many eggs can a female common cuckoo lay during a breeding season?
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During a single breeding season, a female common cuckoo typically lays between 15 and 20 eggs. Because the species practices brood parasitism, the female must locate a new host nest for each individual egg, which she deposits at 48-hour intervals.1