A cuckoo chick hatches, then evicts its foster siblings from the nest one by one

Female common cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and leave. Within hours of hatching — still blind and featherless — the cuckoo chick shoulders every other egg and hatchling over the rim, so the host parents end up raising it alone, often growing far larger than the parents feeding it.

— Wikipedia contributors, Cuckoo — Brood parasitism in Cuculus canorus

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