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	Cuckoo - LoveToKnow 1911
		The cuckoo is a summer visitant to the whole of Europe, reaching even far within the Arctic circle, and crossing the Mediterranean from its winter quarters in Africa at the end of March or beginning of April.
		Cuckoos, too, have been not unfrequently shot as they were carrying a cuckoo's egg, presumably their own, in their bill, and this has probably given rise to the vulgar, but seemingly groundless, belief that they suck the eggs of other kinds of birds.
		Respecting the cuckoos of America, the evidence, though it has been impugned, is certainly enough to clear them from the charge which attaches to so many of their brethren of the Old World.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cuckoo (2125 words)

	Common Cuckoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, the coucals, and the Hoatzin.
		Female Cuckoos are divided into gentes, that is populations favouring a particular host species' nest and laying eggs which match those of that species in colour and pattern.
		It is not known how the hen cuckoo gets the timing right, as she cannot see the Reed Warblers' eggs from the trees, but it is likely that is it from the behaviour of warblers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Cuckoo (806 words)

	Cuckoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds.
		The cuckoo egg hatches earlier than the host's, and the cuckoo chick grows faster; in most cases the chick evicts the eggs or young of the host species.
		The cuckoo family gets its English and scientific names from the call of the Common Cuckoo, which is also familiar from cuckoo clocks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuckoo (387 words)

	cuckoo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Cuckoos are slender-bodied, long-tailed birds with medium to stout down-curved bills, pointed wings, short legs (except in the terrestrial species), and dull (usually grayish brown or rufous) plumage.
		The cuckoo is referred to in the Bible, by Aristotle and Pliny, in mythology, and in English poetry.
		Cuckoos are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Cuculiformes, family Cuculidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cu/cuckoo.html (526 words)

	cuckoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The decline of the yellow-billed cuckoo is a signal that western rivers and streamside forests can not sustain the current impact of dams, water diversions, agribusiness, livestock grazing, sprawl, and pollution.
		To save the yellow-billed cuckoo, the Center for Biological Diversity is employing scientific research, environmental litigation, coalition building and public education to protect and restore western rivers.
		The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is often called the raincrow because its kakakakakakakaka ka ka ka ka ka ka kow kow kow kow kow kow kow
	www.biologicaldiversity.org /swcbd/species/cuckoo/index.html (523 words)

	CUCKOO CLOCKS-BLACK FOREST CUCKOO CLOCK-GERMAN CUCKOO CLOCKS
		A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours using small bellows and whistles that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo in addition to striking a wire gong.
		Although the idea of placing a cuckoo bird in a clock did not originate in the Black Forest, it is necessary to emphasize that the cuckoo clock as we know it today, comes from this region located in southwest Germany whose tradition of clockmaking started in the late seventeenth century.
		The Chalet cuckoo clock is often wrongly associated with Switzerland, as in the movie The Third Man. In the USA, this error is probably due to a story by Mark Twain in which the hero depicts the Swiss town of Lucerne as the home of cuckoo clocks.
	www.mycuckooclocks.com (1649 words)

	Cuckoo clock
		A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically a pendulum clock, that strikes the hours using small bellows and whistles that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo bird in addition to striking on a wire gong.
		The cuckoo clock was invented in the Black Forest town of Schönwald, Germany, by Franz Ketterer in 1738.
		The cuckoo clock is often wrongly associated with Switzerland, as in the movie The Third Man.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/cu/cuckoo_clock.html (379 words)

	Cuckoo
		Cuckoo is in the back of this column of Churchill tanks, normally a sight like this would cause panic amongst the british crews.
		Cuckoo originally belonged to the German Panzerbrigade 107, a unit that only saw action in the Dutch county of Limburg, and the eastern part of Noord Brabant.
		The tank was named Cuckoo, and this name was painted on both lower sides of the turret, in white or another light colour.
	www.twenot.nl /cuckoo.htm (1818 words)

	Cuckoo clock World, the world of cuckoo clocks
		Generally Black Forest cuckoo clocks are driven by a mechanical movement which is run by weights under the clocks.
		They are not as authentic as mechanical cuckoo clocks, the "feeling" is quite different because they are using an animated cuckoo made of plastic and a recorded cuckoo sound.
		With same models the cuckoo bird actually flaps his wings as he cuckoos to the sound of running water in the background.
	www.cuckooclockmall.com /modells.htm (1198 words)

	ADW: Cuculus canorus: Information
		Once the cuckoo has hatched, it will eject the other eggs or young so that it will receive all the food brought by the "foster parents." The young cuckoo is fed and brooded by the host for 20- 23 days, and grows several times larger than the hosts.
		Cuckoos are mostly shy and live solitary lives, except during the breeding season.
		The cuckoo is not poisoned after eating the caterpillar because before eating it, the cuckoo will bite one end of the caterpillar, slice the caterpillar using its beak, then shake the insect at one end until the toxic contents are released.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Cuculus_canorus.html (561 words)

	Pallid Cuckoo
		The Pallid Cuckoo is easily identified by its grey plumage, which is darker on the wings and back, and its broadly barred fl and white undertail.
		Young Pallid Cuckoos are mottled with brown and buff above, with a white spot on the nape, and are streaked with grey-brown and white below.
		The Pallid Cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests of honeyeaters, woodswallows, whistlers and flycatchers.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/pallid_cuckoo.htm (349 words)

	Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus
		A hen cuckoo can lay up to 25 eggs, if she puts her mind to it, although this is exceptional.
		Stevenson mentions in his 'Birds of Norfolk' (1866) having flushed several cuckoos that had congregated in some gooseberry bushes in a garden at Bramerton and that the attraction proved to be an infestation of large white butterfly caterpillars, to which they seemed partial.
		Gilbert White was of the opinion that it was anatomically impossible for a cuckoo to brood its eggs, due to the crop not lying at the base of the neck, as in other birds, but immediately below the sternum and between that and the anus, causing a protuberance of the belly.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/cuckoo.htm (250 words)

	KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Cuckoo!
		I’ve been a little obsessed with cuckoo clocks for the past few weeks, and here are a few cuckoo-related oddments.
		The call of the cuckoo was notated as a descending minor third (F and D) in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher, in his wonderful book Musurgia Universalis.
		The tail of the cuckoo bird is attached to one of the bellows-tops, so that the bird bobs down on the first note and back up on the second note.
	www.krazydad.com /blog/2006/03/20/cuckoo (829 words)

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		Cuckoo is an artists' initiative from Aotearoa/New Zealand, operational since late 2000.
		Cuckoo and the Melbourne artist-run project CLUBSproject came together to present "Silver Clouds".
		Cuckoo sent a team over and they made work, in a two-a-day relay at the CLUBSproject's Next Wave container.
	www.cuckoo.org.nz (303 words)

	Cuckoo - EnchantedLearning.com
		Many cuckoos live in the canopy of the rainforests (in Australia, South America, Asia, and Africa), although others live in the desert (like the road runner, which is a ground cuckoo) and other varied environments.
		Cuckoos are Zygodactyl birds; birds with two toes that face forward (toes 2 and 3) and two toes that face backwards (toes 1 and 4).
		Other cuckoo species care for their own young, and a few of these are cooperative breeders (living in family units), notably the anis.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/birds/info/Cuckoo.shtml (381 words)

	Birds: The Cuckoo
		This particular clock had but one dial hand, and the exact time of day could not be determined by it until the appearance of the Cuckoo, who, in a squeaking voice, seemed to announce that it was just one hour later or earlier, as the case might be, than at his last appearance.
		In their habits the American and European Cuckoos are so similar that whatever of poetry and sentiment has been written of them is applicable alike to either.
		He at first supposed an echo was the cause of these strange notes, the bird being then half a mile away, but he satisfied himself that this was not the case, as the bird came and alighted on a noble oak a few yards from him and repeated the notes.
	www.birdnature.com /sep1897/cuckoo.html (591 words)

	1 Day Musical Cuckoo Clocks
		Plays 1 melody after the call of cuckoo on the hour as the musicman emerges from the left door.
		Chalet cuckoo clock with wood chopper, goat and chimney sweep.
		Cuckoo clock with beer drinker, water wheel, chimney sweep and hand-painting.
	www.cuckooclockshops.com /contents/en-us/d2.html (318 words)

	Factsheets: Fan-tailed Cuckoo
		They are among the more commonly observed members of the cuckoo family, especially in the favoured habitat of open forests, woodlands and similarly vegetated gardens.
		The breeding season of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo is between August and December in the east, and June to October in the south-west.
		As with most other species of Australian cuckoos, it is a brood parasite; laying its eggs in the nests of other species of birds.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/fantailed_cuckoo.htm (386 words)

	cuckoo birds of africa
		The parasitic cuckoos have evolved a breeding strategy which does away with parental care, but it is not easy for them to simply deposit an egg and leave the foster parents to do the rest.
		In Southern Africa, all cuckoos are migratory (the Klaas's and Emerald Cuckoos appear to be resident in the warmer east), arriving from Central or Eastern Africa at the start of the rainy season in late September and October.
		Most cuckoos are able to produce eggs which match the coloration of their selected host (how is not known!) and the hatching period is often shorter because the female cuckoo can retain her egg in her oviduct for up to a couple of days before laying.
	www.wildwatch.com /resources/birds/cuckoos.asp (1047 words)

	Channel-billed Cuckoo
		The call of the Channel-billed Cuckoo, a loud 'kawk' followed by a more rapid, and weaker 'awk-awk-awk...', is as distinctive as the bird's appearance.
		The Channel-billed Cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests of the Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen, the Pied Currawong, Strepera graculina and members of the crow family (Corvidae).
		Unlike many other cuckoos, the young birds do not evict the host's young or eggs from the nest, but simply grow faster and demand all the food, thus starving the others.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/channelbilled_cuckoo.htm (317 words)

	Great Spotted Cuckoo
		The Great Spotted Cuckoo, Clamator glandarius, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, the coucals, and the Hoatzin.
		It is a brood parasite, which lays its eggs in the nests of corvids (especially magpies), and starlings.
		Unlike the Common Cuckoo, neither the hen nor the hatched chick of this species evict the host's eggs, but the young magpies often die because they cannot compete successfully with the cuckoo for food.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/g/gr/great_spotted_cuckoo.html (221 words)

	Cuckoo Egg FAQ v1
		A Cuckoo Egg is an MP3 file that resembles a copyrighted song that is being distributed without the copyright holder's authorization.
		A Cuckoo Egg will typically contain the initial 30 seconds of the real song with the rest of the song being overwritten by some non-copyrighted material such as white noise or a repeating cuckoo clock sound effect.
		Cuckoo Eggs will have the same playing time and file size as the song it purports to be.
	www.hand-2-mouth.com /cuckooegg/eggfaq.htm (1586 words)

	4Front Technologies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cuckoo is an experimental Linux kernel module (LKM) that makes it possible to run ALSA applications with the Open Sound System (OSS) sound drivers by 4Front Technologies.
		The cuckoo module is kind of interpreter between two systems that talk slightly different dialects of the same language.
		Currently, the cuckoo module may not work with /dev/dsp0 as some of the OSS drivers do some automatic redirection of the default device to the Virtual Mixer.
	www.opensound.com /cuckoo.html (1158 words)

	Cuckoos and Cowbirds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a California variety of it, the Black-billed Cuckoo, and two species which range as far north as southern Florida, are not hawklike but resemble a slender pigeon with a longer neck and tail.
		It differs from the fl billed cuckoo in that the lower part of the long curved bill is yellow instead of fl, the under sides of its wings are reddish, and its long fl tail feathers are conspicuously marked with large white spots.
		Both species are valuable because, like the European cuckoo, they eat enormous numbers of canker worms and caterpillars, especially the hairy or spiny kinds that most birds avoid, such as the destructive tent caterpillars, fall webworms and tussock moth larvae.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/300-399/nb346.htm (632 words)

	Klockit - History of Cuckoo Clocks
		A cuckoo clock is typically a pendulum clock striking the hours using small bellows and whistles that imitate the call of the cuckoo bird and hit on a wire gong.
		Today the casing of a cuckoo clock is conventional and is usually designed in the shape of a rustic birdhouse or a chalet.
		Most cuckoo clocks have an automaton of the cuckoo bird that appears through a small trap door when the clock is striking and vanishes behind the door after the gong stops.
	www.klockit.com /files/historyOfCuckooClocks.html (860 words)

	1 Day Cuckoo Clocks from the Black Forest of Germany.
		These cuckoo clocks are hand crafted and no two clocks are the same.
		Leaf and bird cuckoo clock with 5 leaves and 1 bird.
		Leaf and bird cuckoo clock with 5 leaves and 3 birds.
	www.cuckookingdom.com /store.asp?C=1 (341 words)

	Cuckoo - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Cuckoo (illustration) Female grey cuckoo Female rufous cuckoo Juvenile cuckoo
		The cuckoo is a dove-sized bird with blue grey upper parts, head and chest with dark barred white under parts.
		Cuckoos can be seen throughout the UK, but are especially numerous in southern and central England.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/c/cuckoo/index.asp (267 words)

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