Male Plaintive Cuckoo, a bird with orange body and grey head, brown and white barred trail, perched on a dead water lily flower head drooping its wings.

Spotted Owlet, a small brown owl with white spots and a pale head, perched in a tree, facing left with its left wing outstretched.

Eastern Red-rumped Swallow, small bird with white underside covered in black streaks, perched on overhead wire, stretching its wings.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying by @robcrank68.bsky.social. I have a male Plaintive Cuckoo and Spotted Owlet from Benchakitti Park #Bangkok and an Eastern Red-rumped Swallow from #ChiangDao
#birds #birding #cuckoos #owls #swallows #birdsSeenIn2026 #Thailand #EastCoastKin

The cuckoos are on their way! #ornithology #cuckoos

Link is seen frantically chasing after stray chickens (or cuckoos, cuz Zelda) in Kakariko Village. Link (holding one frightened cuckoo aloft): GIVE ME ALL OF THE COCKS!!! RIGHT NOW!!!

528 - I'm Caca For Cuckoo Puffs
Some things about Kakariko never change (like cock wrangling)
#SDComics #BreathOfTheWild #KakarikoVillage #sidequests #chickens #cuckoos #ranaway #runningamok #gather #retrievethem #chase #frantic #exclamations #phrasing #unhinged #outofcontext

Are #cuckoos really lonely migrants that only have their genes as company? Possibly not, and in an essay this alternative view is explored.

Piersma, T. (2022) Socially migrating cuckoos? On genes being just one of many resources shaping the individual development of migration. Ardea 110, 107-110.

What'll happen to 'Reform UK' now they've let in all those Tories?

#Reformatives #TrojanHorse #Cuckoos #r4today #ukpolitics

A common squirrel cuckoo is drawn perched on a branch with a whorl of leaves.

Day 2 of @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 for the prompt #HiddenBirds: a Common squirrel cuckoo. Not a terribly shy bird, but it took me ages to finally spot one amongst the leaves!

#cuckoos #birdart #birddrawing #ballpointpen #wildlifeart

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"Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow..."

#Christmas #horror #cuckoos

Another great cuckoo from Tasmania.. one that I missed last year in NZ. Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus). Migratory in southern Australia and NZ, heading to Northern Australia and the East Indies by late summer. #BirdingAustralia #BirdingTasmania #cuckoos

Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis) at the Inala Nature Reserve on Bruny Island, Tasmania. #BirdingAustralia #BirdingTasmania #cuckoos

How common cuckoos adapt to multiple hosts Genomic data reveal the complexity of egg mimicry evolution in cuckoos

New in this week's issue of Science -
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#birds #cuckoos #broodparasitism

Yellow-billed Malkoha 𝘙𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘺𝘹 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴

Bay Coucal 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴

Bay Coucal 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴

#Forests in #Sulawesi are inhabited by 2 non-parasitic #cuckoos: the unique Yellow-billed Malkoha & the arboreal Bay Coucal. It's understandable why the malkoha is placed in its own, monotypic genus.

#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #naturebeauty #birdsof #Indonesia #endemic

First Koel has arrived in the Submarine town! #Holbrook #cuckoos #koelwatch #WildOz #birds

A female Indian koel perched on a tree branch. The back and wings are black with white spots.

A female Indian koel perched on a tree branch.

October 5 2025. Kolkata India.

#birds #koels #cuckoos #backyardbirding #birdsofindia

It's officially #spring.

The Channel billed #cuckoos are out here looking for someone to raise their kids....

Yellow-billed Cuckoo looking for caterpillars in a Red Oak #birds #birding #bird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #cuckoos

Malaysia birding trip 3/1/2025: deep in the woods male Violet Cuckoo with glossy violet-purple head, upper breast & upperparts, lower breast white with dark bars & bright orange bill with red base. Found in Indian subcontinent to southern China & Southeast Asia #violetcuckoo #cuckoos #birds

Trump’s radical agenda will ultimately reach a supreme court stacked in favor of conservatives Court has already dramatically limited ability of lower courts to issue injunctions to pause administration policies across the US

No. The current SCOTUS does NOT favor "conservatives." They aren't conserving anything. They are White Christian Nationalists angling to create a repressive theocracy while they wait for the "End Times." #cuckoos

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This is cool because #cuckoos are some bad-ass mutha-flupping #birds. But also because it's an #infographic, and we need to start being an infographic-producing civilisation again.

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus)
📏 13–18 cm
📍 Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand 🇳🇿
🗓 Oct 2020

#birds #cuckoos

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)
📏 56–70 cm
📍 Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia 🇦🇺
🗓 Aug 2023

Biggest cuckoo in the world!

#birds #cuckoos

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Little Bronze Cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus)
📏 15–16 cm
📍 Fogg Dam Conservation Park, Northern Territory, Australia 🇦🇺
🗓 Aug 2023

Smallest cuckoo in the world!

#birds #cuckoos

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana)
📏 40.5–50 cm
📍 Chomes, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
🗓 Mar 2025

#birds #cuckoos

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)
📏 34 cm
📍 Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
🗓 Mar 2025

#birds #cuckoos

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Burchell's Coucal (Centropus burchellii)
📏 41 cm
📍 iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 🇿🇦
📅 Dec 2022

#birds #cuckoos #coucals

🎨 Cuckoos
🐦 Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius)
📏 18–20 cm
📍 Marievale, Gauteng, South Africa 🇿🇦
📅 Dec 2022

#birds #cuckoos

#roadrunners are such #cuckoos

Medium-sized bird with grey and rust wings, a white neck, large black eyes surrounded by yellow, and a long slender yellow and grey beak

Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Southeast Texas, August 16, 2025

#Birds #Cuckoos #NaturePhotography #Photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #TexasStateParks #Birding #BirdWatching #Nature #Wildlife

Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus). San Benito County, California.
#birds
#wildlife
#roadrunners
#cuckoos
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