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The mother will try and find the nest later to ensure the foster parents are feeding her chick the right diet for her young, which includes caterpillars, grasshoppers, flies, beetles, and small snails.

This cunning tacticВ allows for more young cuckoos to be reared than would otherwise be possible. It is well-known for its habit of laying an egg in the nest of another bird, then leaving the offspring to be hatched and fed by вЂfoster parentsвЂ™.

The best time to hear a cuckoo is during most evenings between mid-April and June.

Females have a bubbly chuckle sound different from the males.

The male cuckoo is famous for itsвЂ™ distinctive вЂkoo-koooвЂ™ call, which has been imitated by clockmakers world-wide (the cuckoo clock, where-by rather than the clock chiming, it will make a koo-kooo sound).

In the minds of most country people, spring only truly arrives when the first cuckoo call is heard.

Migrating north from Africa, the first male common cuckoos (вЂcuckoosвЂ™)В reach Europe in mid-April.

all of you come inside and i will switch the computer on,' said swetha's mother. 'how sad we missed watching the cuckoo singing!' reema was disappointed. the males sing such beautiful song to attract the female ones.' they usually sing in spring season because it is their mating season. 'do they always sing like this?' asked swetha. 'the breeding season of cuckoos is september to march,' replied swetha's mother. 'very interesting! aunty, when is their breeding season?' asked sujith. their eggs are hatched by the crow.' she added.

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after laying the eggs, the female koel flies away to the dense forests as it likes to live on big trees full of leaves to hide it. 'a mother koel lays her eggs in the nest of a crow. when the chick leaves the nest it roosts in the outer branches of a tree.' once the egg is hatched the chick forces the other eggs and hatchings out of the nest. 'a mother cuckoo lays egg in the nest of the other bird. 'how do they get brothers and sisters?' reema wanted to know. 'they live on the canopy of the trees, where they make their nests.' 'where do they live? do they have houses like us?' asked swetha. The children looked at each other in surprise. 'they eat fruits, insects,caterpillars, grasshoppers, lizards, small snakes and mammals.' you may wonder what is carnivorous? it means they eat flesh' вЂњmummy, what do they eat? who gives them food?вЂќ they have green beak and red eyes,' said swetha's mother. the female is dark brown, with profusely spotted and barred with white. a female cuckoo has green beak and red eyes. they have short wings but long tail'.ДЇemale cuckoos are slightly smaller than the males. 'a male cuckoo is glistening black, with yellowish green bill and crimson eyes. 'how do we differentiate them whether they are males the crown is dark brown and the bill is pale green in colour.' a cuckooвЂ™s tail is dark gray and slightly white in colour. 'a cuckoo has a long tail, pointed wings and curved bills. вЂњaunty, how do they look in appearance?вЂќ that was reemaвЂ™s question.

'the zoological name of cuckoo is eudynamys scolopacea.' вЂњaunty, what is the zoological name of a cuckoo?вЂќ asked sujith who was a 5th standard student.

I know what all questions you will have, and i will answer them one by one. iвЂ™ll tell you everything about this bird. вЂњmummy, tell me more about cuckoo,вЂќ demanded swetha. a cuckoo has a length of 39-46 cms,' said her mother, sitting next to her daughter.Д«y then swethaвЂ™s friends вЂ“ reema and sujith - came and joined them. they are also found in many bird sanctuaries in india. cuckoo is a small bird seen all over india. вЂњo mama! what a nice bird? such a beautiful song? what is the name of this bird, mama?вЂќ swetha wanted to know more about the bird, which made her happy all this time. amazingly, she found swetha in a very happy mood engrossed in the cuckooвЂ™s song.Д«ut when the bird saw her mother he flew away. she forgot about her loneliness in the company of the bird.ДЄs there was no sound from swetha, her mother got worried and left her job in the kitchen and came to the backyard to find out about her daughter. though it was black looking something like a crow, he sang beautifully and swetha was very happy. she looked up and spotted a black bird there. suddenly she heard a beautiful song of a bird from the top of her house. she was feeling lonely and waited for her friends from the neighbor houses to come and play with her. Koyal bird-essalittle swetha was playing alone in the backyard of her house.