Cuckoos
Order: Cuculiformes. Family: Cuculidae
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius (A)
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
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“Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat
Poor robin-redbreast tunes his note;
Hark, how the jolly cuckoos sing
Cuckooto welcome in the spring!
Cuckooto welcome in the spring!”
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Climb through the night, because his cuckoos call.”
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