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cuckoo
cuckoo Widely distributed forest bird. Related species are the ani,
road runner and coucal. Noted for parasitic behaviour. Their chief food is insects. True Old World cuckoos are generally brownish, although a few species are brightly coloured. Length: 15–75cm (6–30in). Family Cuculidae; genus Cuculus.
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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CUCKOO, VIRUS BROUGHT JENNER FAME
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/6/1999; 700+ words
; ...being incubated, the cuckoo is generally the...really begins. Baby cuckoos have a hollow in...depression in the young cuckoo's back - a depression...theorized European cuckoos became brood parasites...His ideas about cuckoos would take a bit...pictures were taken of cuckoo hatchlings ...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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A cuckoo in a clock may be the only one you'll see.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 4/22/2005; 700+ words
; ...Wales. The first cuckoo to be heard in the...letters to newspapers. Cuckoos can usually be heard...caterpillars that the cuckoos feed on.' He explained that the cuckoo was a fascinating...were perfect for cuckoos, we didn't hear...we know about the cuckoo?:According to...
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Growing up Cuckoo: far from being crazy, these unusual birds use every evolutionary strategy to give their offspring--and themselves--the edge.(Backyard biodiversity)
Magazine article from: ROM Magazine; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...But why fault the cuckoo for such an unfortunate...circumstance? While cuckoos do exhibit some rather...been reported among cuckoos--at least not...several members of the cuckoo family do practice...and black-billed cuckoo are not above resorting...these Canadian cuckoos build flimsy ...
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Bastard cuckoos Radio
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/30/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Cambridgeshire with a cuckoo expert, Nick Davies...vaguely, that cuckoos lay their eggs in...feeding the solitary cuckoo which has killed...done, the parent cuckoos scoot off back to...been taken over by a cuckoo and reject its egg...get fussier, so cuckoos become more artful...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The first cuckoo article of spring. (other birds become unwitting adoptive parents of cuckoo eggs)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/20/1991; 700+ words
; ...European spring, the cuckoo, suggest that if...England, where cuckoos ply their ancient...race, driving the cuckoos which specialise...extinction. To be a cuckoo's potential victim...battles with the cuckoo; and cuckoos are continually...
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FARMING: It's cuckoo time again, so get ready to jingle the money in your pocket.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 4/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...it is the male who sings the cuckoo call - will begin doing this...But when exactly does ``cuckoo day'' arrive? It appears...to late April, and so the cuckoos will soon be arriving in their...many spring plants, and the cuckoo has lent its name to one or...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Silence at cuckoo rock ; O the cuckoo has joined the Westcountry's inventory of endangered birds. Indeed, the number of species on the RSPB's red list has now climbed to more than one in five of all the nation's birdlife. "Are you still depressed?" a woman asked me as we rolled gently across a silky smooth Bristol Channel this week. She had read my column last week in which I'd feared the coming of a new Dark Age.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 5/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...grave. Any lack of cuckoos is, I suppose...to frustrate the cuckoo of its piratical...come and gone since cuckoos first visited this...annual arrival. Now Cuckoo Rock has fallen silent...be glad to see the cuckoos go. "Every year...where she hears the cuckoo call, while I have...
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Where have all the cuckoos gone? ; One of our favourite birds may be in terminal decline. Simon Birch investigates
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...which show that cuckoo numbers have plummeted...monitoring the arrival of cuckoos back from their African...disappearance of the cuckoo is a decrease in...source of food for cuckoos returning from warmer...they first heard a cuckoo this spring on the...arrival and spread of cuckoos ...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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Romanians hunt cuckoo.(News)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 4/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...and 26. Philip Thompson, Cuckoo Day organiser, said...a big compliment for the Cuckoo Day festival to be such an inspiration." Cuckoos are part of Romanian tradition...have their own version of Cuckoo Day set up by 2009. Mr Thompson...
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Begging behavior of fledgling Rusty-breasted Cuckoo: (Cacomantis sepulcralis).(SHORT COMMUNICATIONS)(Report)
Magazine article from: The Wilson Journal of Ornithology; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the cuckoo. DISCUSSION Cuckoo fledglings are occasionally...species that do not raise cuckoos (Sealy and Lorenzana...the Rusty-breasted Cuckoo in Java (Payne 2005...juvenile Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo (C. castaneiventris...fledged young Fan-tailed Cuckoos (C. flabelliformis...
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Cuckoos
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...discovered by a female cuckoo, the parasitized...own young. Male cuckoos maintain a breeding...Most species in the cuckoo family feed mostly...smaller species of cuckoos will eat the hairy...season. Two familiar cuckoos of North America are the yellow-billed cuckoo ( Coccyzus ...
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Cuckoo Clock
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Cuckoo Clock Background The cuckoo clock is a favorite souvenir of travelers in Germany, Austria...watch-making area of the world. And, finally, there is the cuckoo and its fellows. On the hour (and often the half-and quarter...
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cuckoo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cuckoo common name for members...tropical regions. Cuckoos are slender-bodied...parasitic Old World cuckoos, the common European cuckoo, Cuculus canorus...also imitated in the cuckoo clock. The American cuckoos look like attenuated...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST USA, 1975 Director: Milos...McCreadie, Marsha, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : Some Reasons for One Happy...Happen': Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," in Literature/Film Quarterly...
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cuckoo clock
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
cuck·oo clock • n. a clock that strikes the hour with a sound like a cuckoo's call and typically has a mechanical cuckoo that emerges.
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