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  2. Common cuckoo - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Cuckoo - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Common hawk-cuckoo - Wikipedia

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    In Bodo, the call sounds like "haab fisha houwa", which means dear son (where are you). The call "Pee kahan" or "Papeeha" is more accurately represented by the shrill screaming "pi-peeah" of the large hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides, which replaces the brainfever bird along the Himalayas and its foothills. [6]

  5. Birdsong in music - Wikipedia

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    The cuckoo's distinctive call is used in the 13th-century English "Sumer is icumen in", probably the earliest instance of a birdcall in musical notation. [7] [8] In 1650, Athanasius Kircher represented the calls of several birds in musical notation in his encyclopedic Musurgia Universalis. [9]

  6. List of cuckoos - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Red-chested cuckoo - Wikipedia

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    The red-chested cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) (or Nyamuthowathowane in the Luvenḓa (Venḓa) language), is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is a medium-sized bird found in Africa, south of the Sahara. In Afrikaans, it is known as "Piet-my-vrou", after its call. [2]

  8. Diederik cuckoo - Wikipedia

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    The diederik cuckoo takes a variety of insects and insect larvae. It is a noisy species, with the persistent and loud deed-deed-deed-deed-er-ick call from which it gets its name. Usually four clear, roughly identical, notes followed by a little twitter.

  9. Cuckoo clock - Wikipedia

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    Cuckoo clock, a so-called Jagdstück ("hunt piece"), Black Forest, c. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006-013. A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, not typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close ...

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