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What is brood parasitism? Give an example what adaptation has evolved in this phenomenon

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Brood parasitism is a phenomenon in which one species (parasite) lays eggs in the nest of other species (host) of bird and lets the host incubate them,

eg: Cuckoo lays eggs in crow’s nest Cuckoo’s eggs shows resemblance with the eggs of crow in colour size etc which failed to identify by the crow with their eggs.

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