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The cuckoo is a fine bird he sings as he flies, He brings us good tidings and tells us no lies. He sucks the sweet flowers to make his voice clear, And the more he cries cuckoo, the summer is nigh. [4] (In many American versions, the cuckoo patriotically "never sings 'cuckoo' till the fourth of July".
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
"Coo Coo", a song from the 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine; Coo Coo, an Italo disco group; Coo Coo Cal, American rapper; Other. Coo Coo Marlin, American racecar driver, father of Sterling Marlin; Coo-coo, or cou-cou, a Barbadian dish, often made from corn meal and okra
Jacobin cuckoo: Clamator jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783) 77 Little cuckoo: Coccycua minuta (Vieillot, 1817) 78 Dwarf cuckoo: Coccycua pumila (Strickland, 1852) 79 Ash-colored cuckoo: Coccycua cinerea (Vieillot, 1817) 80 Squirrel cuckoo: Piaya cayana (Linnaeus, 1766) 81 Black-bellied cuckoo: Piaya melanogaster (Vieillot, 1817) 82 Dark-billed cuckoo
This page keeps track of the WP:BIRD effort to standardize names using the IOC WBL list of bird names. A copy of this list for checking is available here (Non-Passeriformes) and here (Passeriformes). Updates to the list can be found here. Indicate when a group is finished, and log every accepted exception with its motivation so that this ...
A Wilson's warbler bird in Alaska. The American Ornithological Society said it is trying to address years of controversy over a list of bird names that include human names deemed offensive.
Many local legends and traditions are based on this. In Scotland, gowk stanes (cuckoo stones) sometimes associated with the arrival of the first cuckoo of spring. "Gowk" is an old name for the common cuckoo in northern England, [47] derived from the harsh repeated "gowk" call the bird makes when excited. [4]
The genus Chrysococcyx was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus) as the type species. [1] [2] The name Chrysococcyx combines the Ancient Greek χρυσος khrusos meaning "gold" and κοκκυξ kokkux "cuckoo".