Common Cuckoo Gallery

Common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, and crested

Common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, and crested coua, Coua cristata. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Guyard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Common Cuckoo Stonechat (Saxicola maurus)

Common Cuckoo Stonechat (Saxicola maurus), female bringing food to a fledgling chick of a Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). Nobeyama Plateau, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

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Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) attacking Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) attacking Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), female, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany, May

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