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"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 well-known cuckoo clock features a mechanical bird and is fitted with bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the common cuckoo. [48]
The common hawk-cuckoo occurs in most of the Indian subcontinent, from Pakistan in the west, across the Himalayas foothills, east to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and North East India [10] and south into Sri Lanka. Some birds of the Indian population winter in Sri Lanka. In the hills of central Sri Lanka, ciceliae is a resident.
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 genus name is the Latin word for "cuckoo". [2] [3] The type species is the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). [4] ... These birds are of variable size with slender ...
The channel-billed cuckoo is often shy, remaining hidden in tree canopies feeding on fruit and most active in early morning and evening. Its loud raucous call makes it more often heard than seen. Other birds such as crows harass and chase it when they encounter it. [13] Miner birds and crows and some other species also swoop them
The call of the wood pigeon is a loud and sustained characteristic cooing phrase, coo-COO-COO-coo-coo. In Ireland and the UK, the traditional mnemonic for the distinctive call of the bird has been interpreted as "Take two cows, Teddy", or "Take two cows, Taffy".
The yellow-billed cuckoo is now placed with 12 other species in the genus Coccyzus that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot. [4] [5] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek kokkuzō meaning "to cry cuckoo". [6] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [5]
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