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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".
The genus name combines the Ancient Greek krotōn meaning "tick" with -phagos meaning "-eating". [4] Linnaeus cited the Irish physician Patrick Browne who in 1756 in his The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica had used the name Crotophaga and remarked that smooth-billed anis "live chiefly upon ticks and other small vermin; and may be ...
The chestnut-breasted malkoha is typical of the Phaenicophaeinae in having brightly coloured skin around the eye.. Cuckoos are medium-sized birds that range in size from the little bronze cuckoo, at 17 g (0.6 oz) and 15 cm (6 in), to moderately large birds, ranging from 60–80 cm (24–31 in) in length, such as the giant coua of Madagascar, the coral-billed ground-cuckoo of Indochina, and ...
The smooth-billed ani is a mid-sized species, larger on average than the groove-billed ani but smaller than the greater ani. It measures approximately 35 cm (14 in) in overall length. Males weigh around 115 g (4.1 oz) while females are lighter and with a weight of around 95 g (3.4 oz).
Greater ani: Crotophaga major Gmelin, JF, 1788: 2 Smooth-billed ani: Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, 1758: 3 Groove-billed ani: Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson, 1827: 4 Striped cuckoo: Tapera naevia (Linnaeus, 1766) 5 Pheasant cuckoo: Dromococcyx phasianellus (Spix, 1824) 6 Pavonine cuckoo: Dromococcyx pavoninus Pelzeln, 1870: 7 Lesser ground cuckoo
The Skye Boat Song" (Roud 3772) is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh ("Cuckoo of the Tree"). [1] In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love , Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him.
The greater ani (Crotophaga major) is a bird in the cuckoo family. It is sometimes referred to as the black cuckoo. It is sometimes referred to as the black cuckoo. It is found through tropical South America south to northern Argentina.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.