Editing Greater honeyguide (section)

===Reproduction===
The greater honeyguide is a [[brood parasite]]. It lays white eggs in series of 3 to 7, for a total of 10 to 20 in a year. Each egg is laid in a different nest of a bird of another species, including some woodpeckers, [[Lybiidae|barbets]], [[kingfisher]]s, [[bee-eater]]s, [[wood hoopoe]]s, [[starling]]s, and large [[hirundinidae|swallows]]. It is common for the female greater honeyguide to break the host's eggs when laying her own.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Spottiswoode |first1=C. N. |last2=Colebrook-Robjent |first2=J. F. R. |date=2007 |title=Egg puncturing by the brood parasitic Greater Honeyguide and potential host counteradaptations |journal=Behavioral Ecology |volume=18|issue=4 |pages=792–799 |doi=10.1093/beheco/arm025 |doi-access=free |hdl=10.1093/beheco/arm025 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> All the species parasitized nest in holes, covered nests, or deep cup nests. The chick has a membranous hook on the bill that it uses, while still blind and featherless, to kill the host's young outright or by repeated wounds.