Talk:Common cuckoo

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It would be nice to have a photograph of cuckoos. Is there one on another language wiki?

What's the source for the statement that the chick calls are more important than the gape colour? jimfbleak 05:02, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * BBC/OU audio CD 2005. The hunger calls of the Common Cuckoo are the factor that is the most significant to stimulate the hosts to bring more food.  When a blackbird chick is put in a host nest it does not call out so much and does not get fed so much, but has a similar gape.  I will listen to the relevant section of the CD again - on my to do list, because there may be a more specific reference and to recheck facts.  Snowman 09:43, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll see what I can find too - I'm just little surprised that the gape isn't the main factor, although I know the chicks  have food calls. jimfbleak 10:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The audio CD is called "The rules of life" by BBC/OU presented by Aubrey Manning (professor of animal behaviour). Although the cuckoo chick's gape is bigger than a reed warblers gape, there is only one of them which is not as a good a stimulus as 4 smaller reed warbler gapes, and the cuckoo chick has to make extra high pitched hunger calls to get extra food.  Professor Nick Davies (professor of animal behaviour) put a loud speaker next to the blackbird chick put in a reed warblers nest and it got extra food when the speaker was emitting the rapid repetitive high pitched hunger calls, but not when the speaker was quiet. Snowman 12:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That's fine, I seemed to remember reading that the extra-large gape was a super-stimulus to the parents, but I obviously accept your source. jimfbleak 15:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * One extra large gape does not seem to be a super stimulus for the Hodgson's Hawk-cuckoo either. Snowman 17:35, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

In Culture
does anyone know where i can find the source, or sources for the first two entries in the Culture section about the Cuckoo in English culture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.176.224.124 (talk) 23:30, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

making "Breeding" section readable
The "Breeding" section is so appallingly poorly-written, I gave up fixing inconsistencies, misuse of apostrophes and punctuation, etc., and am simply leaving a suggestion that: anybody with the time and patience might consider cleaning it up.

seems to extinct in norway
at least in oslo where i live. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.59.120 (talk) 13:50, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Cuckoo in culture - Russia
In Russia/former USSR there was a common folk belief/saying that a cuckoo can predict one's life expectancy. When you hear it call, you can ask something like "tell me Cuckoo, how long will I live?", and then the duration of the following call will be the indicator of how many years you may have remaining.

Russian band Kino refers to this custom in their song "Kukushka" (The Cuckoo) with the line "How many songs not yet written are there [for me]? Tell me, Cuckoo". 96.49.206.5 (talk) 00:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC) Knows-Russian

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