How To Use Cuckoo In A Sentence
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He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" --
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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Cuckoos are famous for laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.
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Myra wanted to tell it to SHUT UP as it cuckooed six times.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND
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The Cuckoo Fair is non-profit-making and benefits a range of local charities.
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Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.
Country Diary: North Derbyshire
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To investigate further, the biologists took to subalpine forests in the foothills of Mount Fuji, where the cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of red-flanked bush robins.
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The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host.
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For months afterwards I had panic attacks - I didn't want to say anything to anybody because I thought I was going cuckoo.
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She points to the Oscar Party Legs, the ones a drunken Jack Nicholson tried to violate after he won for Cuckoo's Nest, and the understated Nonprofit Fundraiser Legs she wore to Jerry Lewis Telethons, and the fake-tanned State Dinner with Reagan and Gorbachev Legs that the Secretary of State made her cover up with a long hemline, because their shade matched Gorbachev's birthmark.
Centipede
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It sure didn't take new Portland coach Mo Cheeks long to pick up the company line on resident cuckoo Rasheed Wallace.
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And the pressure of natural selection on the cuckoo is considerably greater than that on the host species.
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They feed their chicks with food that is digestible for the cuckoo chick, and they have a nest size and egg size that make it possible for the young cuckoo to eject the nest contents.
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Another parenting pattern that might lead to brood parasitism is cooperative breeding, seen in cuckoos such as Anis and the Guira Cuckoo.
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A cuckoo calls from the shores of the lake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Savage seems to be living in cloud cuckoo land in a couple of key respects.
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Cuckoo kind, including orioles, mockingbirds, and creationists – spoke with one.
Birdwatching for creationists - The Panda's Thumb
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Most Cuckoos have moderately sized, slightly down curved bills, medium to long wings and zygodactylous feet.
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Southern Slavs the cuckoo is supposed to be the sister of a murdered man ever calling or vengeance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.
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Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash.
Arise Nobel Laureate Salmond!
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The cuckoo is characterized by its familiar call.
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Remember that the next time you wonder when you last heard a cuckoo.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are the fruit of lords-and-ladies, or cuckoo-pint.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any cuckoo nestling that lost its hold, even momentarily, over its host would have died as a result.
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The wooden bird, looking down at her in friendly fashion, "cuckooed" eight times, flapped his wings at her and disappeared.
The Captives
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There was, among the many, a hammock-shaped nest of the golden oriole, and igloo-shaped nest of some jungle specimen, a grass-at-all-angles nest of the ouzel, an eagle's nest spacious enough for Thor to hide in, and yes, a cuckoo's nest, which is to say the nest of any other bird the cuckoo finds handy.
Another Roadside Attraction
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He continued to keep up the cuckoo sound, trying to laugh, and yet totally unable to accomplish even a cackle, as if some internal force clutched the diaphragm and mocked him, so that his efforts were reduced to a gurgling as in cynanche -- like a dog choking with a rope round his craig, the sounds coming jerking out in barks, and dying away again in yelps and whines.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
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There is always something at that marsh but I had a special fancy for an early cuckoo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Talk about cloud cuckoo land.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which cloud cuckoo lands does Count Roy Davies live in?
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She was probably listening to her iPod and drifted off to cuckoo land again.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Did you have a cuckoo clock?
Times, Sunday Times
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The cuckoo hatches first and then kicks any other eggs out of the nest.
Times, Sunday Times
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For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The cuckoo, which resembles a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify.
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A more delicate flower of riversides and damp meadows is lady's smock or cuckoo flower, with both names equally common.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's best known as electroshock therapy, electrically shocking the brain to produce a seizure, a procedure many only know from its portrayal by Jack Nicholson in the movie "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2005
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When referees make contentious decisions players are going to be upset, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.
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You may also find cuckoos, kingbirds, flycatchers, swifts, swallows, orioles, and tanagers in the fall.
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At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.
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Cuckoos con other birds into rearing their chicks because it's so much easier than doing it themselves.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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If you honestly believe that had he been the prime minister, Britain would not have aided our closest ally the US in Iraq then I'm sorry, you're living in cuckoo land.
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From the Atlantic coastline to the Pocomoke River and Forest, Worcester is home to pelicans and peewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, and herons, harriers, and eagles.
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I heard a nightjar, and our nightingale gave us a virtuoso performance but still, no cuckoo.
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No cuckoos in Oberlin -- at least none that I have heard - although I did encounter a skunk who was drowsing under my car in the old shed that doubles as a garage behind my house ... you should have seen me run the other way as he woke up!!!
Jean's Knitting
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The Arum family, Aroidae, which numbers nearly 1,000 members, mostly tropical, and many of them marsh or water plants, is represented in this country by a sole species, Arum maculatum, familiarly known as Lords and Ladies, or Cuckoo-pint.
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But these people are cuckoo about Ronald Reagan.
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According to Rothstein's classification of hosts based on ejection frequencies, robins would be considered accepters of both white and blue cuckoo eggs.
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Species include black-naped fruit pigeon Ptilinopus melanospila, large brown cuckoo dove Macropygia phasianella, emerald dove Chalcophaps indica, collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris and yellow-vented bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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This bad habit is known of the Old World cuckoos, the American cow - birds, the South American rice grackle (_Cassidix_), and suspected in the pin-tail whydah (_Vidua serena_).
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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Then for want of cuckoo-pint, or priest-pintle, lousebur, clote, and paper, we made ourselves false faces with the leaves of an old Sextum that had been thrown by and lay there for anyone that would take it up, cutting out holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The first white settlers called Ninox boobook the cuckoo owl; to the Arrernte, it was the arkularkua.
Wildwood
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`Because you lived in cloud-cuckoo-land ,' said Owen, looking out of the window.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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A gleam of red spotted in a dark ditch reveals a spike of the orange-red berries of lords-and-ladies, or cuckoo-pint.
Times, Sunday Times
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the two-note call of the cuckoo
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When the cuckoos, dings, and dongs finally stopped Fred settled back into his chair and turned on his laptop.
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I don't live in a Political Cloudcuckooland; I know that "negative" is not always "bad.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Beside the portrait was a carved cuckoo clock with green ivy and purple grapes growing around a green front door.
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A dunnock plays host to a young cuckoo.
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Parasitic cuckoos, cowbirds and weavers lay many more eggs per season than their non-parasitic relatives.
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The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
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Have you seen those cuckoo clocks which have little weathermen as part of the mechanism?
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But cuckoo is a very simple call? it could be that one of the reasons why it is such a simple call is precisely because of the phenomenon they describe.
David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'
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‘We've photographed rhinoceros hornbills and great argus pheasants before but when we found that we'd photographed a Sumatran ground cuckoo, we couldn't believe it,’ said field leader Yoan Dinata of Fauna and Flora International Indonesia.
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I must have been nuts, but as I say, it's a special night, so I clap my hands and make a few wolf whistles just to be cute, but then I get to thinking she looks cuckoo up there, poor thing.
Cockroaches
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At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.
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The cuckoo is a harbinger of spring.
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The cuckoo lays her egg in another bird's nest.
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The inventive production is a work of art in its own right, every bit as cuckoo as the play.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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Cuckoo wrasse are also common, and soft corals and red sunstars add some colour to the rusty steel.
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Other than a ‘piet-my-vrou ‘(red chested cuckoo) waking up at 5 this morning to shout, before it even got light, and my son's awakening at 5: 30 on a SUNDAY morning to ask if he could watch TV, it's been a good start to the week.’
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Other common names for it are cuckooflower and milkmaids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crows, Cuckoos and Parakeets are very destructive, parakeets not only destroy fruit tree buds but also raid nests and kill nestlings.
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This ability might represent an escalation in an arms race between superb fairy-wrens and cuckoos, the researchers suggest in the March 13 Nature.
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India's policy-makers must emerge from their cuckoo world of neo-liberal economics and corporate-driven politics.
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The braize, the sea-scorpion, the black conger, the muraena, and the piper or sea-cuckoo are found alike in shallow and deep waters.
The History of Animals
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And, as B&S went into old favorites such as "I'm a Cuckoo," the catchiest of the many Smiths-meets - "A Mighty Wind" gems in the band's canon, the fans couldn't stop their feet from shuffling, either.
Belle and Sebastian's light, Scottish songs lift the audience at DAR
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One which was marshy was white for weeks together with the lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower.
Round About a Great Estate
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Given the strong sexual dimorphism and barred, brown female plumage of the Courol, its semi-zygodactyl feet, strong, reinforced jaws, and habit of eating caterpillars, this proposed link - which, ironically, puts the Coural back where it started in 1783 - is intriguing (cuckoos have really interesting jaws, as do the possibly related turacos and hoatzins) [sexual dimorphism in the cuckoo
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Finally, almost anywhere in the country you may hear a cuckoo calling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who thinks this legislation will be effective is living in cloud cuckoo land.
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Monophyly and phylogeny of cuckoos (Aves, Cuculidae) inferred from osteological characters.
Archive 2006-11-01
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The whole thing was cuckoo enough that it might be true.
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The chicaly bird began his musical quick cuckoo cry, the corrosou tolled out his bell notes, the "waggish kinds of Monkeys" screamed and chattered in the branches, playing "a thousand antick Tricks.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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Have you heard a cuckoo yet?
Times, Sunday Times
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I was beginning to understand who put the cuckoo in cloud cuckoo land.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember him saying ‘This guy's got this cuckoo magazine in New York City, you ought to check it out.’
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Freudians attributed couvade to "fetus envy," but recent science has found that it's not so cuckoo.
The Plight of the Pregnant Man
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These are the wood-shrike, the minivet and the cuckoo-shrike.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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There was a marsh marigold in it, with stems a quarter of an inch thick; and in the grass on the verge, but just beyond where the flood reached, grew the lilac-tinted cuckoo flowers, or cardamine.
Nature Near London
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We have a researcher who was a former chip designer who came to the conclusion that this trend is cuckoo.
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Thus, simple math reveals that Lewis is certifiably cuckoo.
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Among the numerous bird species found here are the prothonotary warbler, white-eyed vireo, wood duck, yellow-billed cuckoo, Louisiana waterthrush, and all the species found in the Southeastern Mixed Forest.
Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest Province (Bailey)
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The method helps the cuckoo chick secure the food supply it needs to satisfy its voracious appetite.
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Until recently the instincts of the European and of the nonparasitic American cuckoo alone were known. now, owing to Mr. Ramsays observations, we have learnt something about three Australian species, which lay their eggs in other birds nests.
VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts
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Perhaps this explains that cuckoo '96 NBA offseason, which saw a handful of players land outrageous contracts.
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The classic form of induced altruism in the animal world is, of course, the bird raising the cuckoo's egg.
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One thing is certain the once common cuckoo is now very rare indeed.
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So while superb fairy-wrens would be better off abandoning cuckoos at the egg stage, because this has become so difficult it pays to abandon the cuckoo chick instead.
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Finally, almost anywhere in the country you may hear a cuckoo calling.
Times, Sunday Times
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For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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I turned out I wasn't the only one whose parents had gone cuckoo on them.
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The females lay their eggs mainly on garlic mustard and cuckoo flower, both of which are coming into bloom.
Times, Sunday Times
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We predicted, based on the egg mimicry hypothesis, that robins and catbirds would eject white cuckoo eggs and accept mimetic blue cuckoo eggs.
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Only a little more indirect is the effect of the same cuckoo genes on the behaviour of the besotted host.
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However, in great spotted cuckoos thick-shelled eggs have not evolved for the same reason because this species parasitizes large birds that do not need to puncture the parasitic egg because they can easily grasp it.
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The most distinct feature of the cuckoo is the long tail.
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With the coming of summer and the arrival of our winged visitors, such as the cuckoo and the swallow, our thoughts often wander to the superstitions associated with birds of almost every kind.
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I was beginning to understand who put the cuckoo in cloud cuckoo land.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cuckoo called from faraway, a greater spotted woodpecker hammered out an urgent tattoo.
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Every year one of the topics commonly discussed here is who heard the first cuckoo of the season.
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He looked like a cuckoo clock that had stopped.
The Sun
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Anyone who thinks this legislation will be effective is living in cloud cuckoo land.
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Yellow-billed Cuckoos are officially considered extirpated in Washington, and the occasional sightings are vagrants.
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All day long, the tailorbirds forage for worms to feed their chick, which often turns out to be a plaintive cuckoo that's been left in their nest.
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Her data supported a tree topology in which Coccyzus is nested within a single clade comprising all of the parasitic cuckoos.
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Except that Cloudcuckooland is already filled up with people who think a socialist party is going to even be a blip on the radar screen in anything short of the rarest circumstances
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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Scientists have discovered there is a bird that can detect cuckoo chicks in the nest.
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They often grow in the grass along with the pink cuckoo flowers, known also as lady's smock or milkmaids.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and then goes away.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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By looking like a super-offspring, the cuckoo successfully exploits the normal pattern of interaction that exists between parent and young.
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It was certainly stopped, for the weights were off and lying upon the ground, and yet, as I stood there, the cuckoo came out and cuckooed at me.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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A chartered surveyor from Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, who owns a terraced property two doors along, said: ‘Property prices in this place are just cuckoo.’
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In contrast to the comforting sound of its call, the cuckoo has a sinister lifestyle.
Times, Sunday Times
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They often grow in the grass along with the pink cuckoo flowers, known also as lady's smock or milkmaids.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ground-dwelling cuckoo, Delalande's coucal lived in Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, along with an array of strange animals found there.
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Unlike certain avian brood parasites, such as cuckoos and honeyguides, hatchling brown-headed cowbirds rarely directly destroy or actively displace host eggs and nestlings.
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Forman never returned to his homeland, but the image of Soviet tanks rolling into his country continued to haunt him and echoes throughout his work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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The just-hatched cuckoo, still blind and featherless, has a special hollow like a dimple on its back, so that it can hump out of the nest, one by one, its companion fledglings.
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The anis and guira cuckoo (Crotophaginae) are group-living cooperative breeders.
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The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.
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THE land of cuckoo clocks is now accessible via Eurostar.
The Sun
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When I visited him he was like a zombie; the drugs, the antidepressants they gave him had left him cuckoo.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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Beyond them he saw the forbidden orchard, with cuckoo-flower and primrose, daffodil and celandine, silver windflower and sweet violets blue and white, spangling the gay grass.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming -- slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life?
David Elginbrod
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There were birds everywhere, of all types - hoopoes, wagtails, tits, finches, and sparrows and swallows nesting in the beams of the house; there were cuckoos singing by day and nightjars by night.
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Years ago people used to write to The Times when they heard the first cuckoo of spring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cuckoopint is an arum that appears in our woods in April, and is also known as lords-and-ladies, starch-root, Adam-and-Eve, bobbins and Wake Robin.
The power of spring flowers
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Regulars in the yard were many, but the stand-outs were a white-crowned shama and a lesser cuckoo-shrike.
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But now I see why someone could go cuckoo over a koala.
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So, too, while in our meadows we purposely propagate tender fodder plants, like grasses and clovers, we find on the margins of our pastures and by our roadsides only protected species; such as thistles, houndstongue, cuckoo-pint, charlock, nettles
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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This guy is cuckoo and has probably lived in cloud cuckoo land almost all his life.
The Sun
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When did you last see a cuckoo clock?
Times, Sunday Times
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`With my husband living in cloud-cuckoo-land and my daughter shut away in a nunnery, it's as if I have only Matthew left.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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A stretch of damp marshy grassland containing rush species and occasional cuckooflowers runs along the western perimeter of the Southern Meadow.
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Two species in whose nests these cuckoos' eggs have been found, and which are known to eject cowbird eggs, did not significantly eject more nonmimetic than mimetic cuckoo eggs.
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As hosts evolve defenses against parasitism by cuckoos, cuckoos evolve ever better means of tricking hosts into rearing their young, which, in turn, promotes the evolution of improved host defenses.
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The silence of night was only interrupted by the cries of the “morepork” in the minor key, like the mournful cuckoos of Europe.
In Search of the Castaways
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The cuckoo would be calling and the swifts and swallows would be sculpting the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Female cuckoos bear more allegiance to a particular host, be it redstart or warbler, than do their males.
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He'd think that I'm cuckoo and refuse to associate me anymore.
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He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" --
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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Why get into such a lather about saving the polar bear, and more recently the cuckoo, when an ideal green world would be empty of all pets?
Times, Sunday Times
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Talk about cloud cuckoo land.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love the idea of hauling a bed outside but my husband and son called me cuckoo and I sort of lost my verve for THAT idea.
Maryjanes Farm...
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A group of engineering students built an assembly of an audio amplifier, relays, a telephone connection - and a tape recording of a cuckoo clock.
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Any bad weather which came at the end of April or early May was dismissed as a mere cuckoo storm that would only last a day or two.
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In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker tanager, bush shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days’ active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.
The Malay Archipelago
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Yellow-billed Cuckoos are slender, long-tailed birds with white underparts and dark upperparts.
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The cuckoo is characterized by its familiar call.
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Unlike common cuckoos, young indigobirds are reared along with their hosts and they mimic the mouth markings of host nestlings.
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It was England, and the cuckoo called distantly across the fields.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Cold spell which deserve Guguan closed, the cuckoo's where the setting sun sunset.
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If Kirov chose, he could drop Vologsky, and Operation Cuckoo, like a hot brick.
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They lay an egg in the nest of another bird, such as a reed warbler, and when the new cuckoo hatches it kicks out the reed warbler chicks.
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The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.
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Willows provide nesting sites for several types of finches and many different birds can be seen throughout the year, including cuckoos, yellowhammers, mallards, moorhens and whitethroats.
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In addition to certain species of cuckoo, there are about 30 species of birds worldwide that are also brood parasites.
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Did you have a cuckoo clock?
Times, Sunday Times
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The seriema-hoatzin clade was closely allied with a cuckoo-turaco clade.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Monkeys, bush babies and many exotic and colourful bird species - including the emerald cuckoo, both purple-crested and Livingstone's louries and the pink-throated longclaw - can be spotted from the viewing decks.
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THE land of cuckoo clocks is now accessible via Eurostar.
The Sun
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a peacock with spread wings, a fish, cuckoo, scorpion, a child's doll, a sieve, a pattern of Sita's cookroom and representations of all female ornaments.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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From her I discovered simple joys like listening for the cuckoo and hearing stories around the fire.
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According to Britannica.com this arrangement is called zygodactyl and is typical of parrots, woodpeckers, cuckoos and a few other kinds.
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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Devon and Cornwall Police said Dean and Davis "cuckooed" themselves into homes through mental and physical abuse and in one case a tenant was forced to sleep rough under bridges.
IcNewcastle
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Soon, Alyssa was pacing around the large room, looking at the antique cuckoo clock every few minutes.
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It is the male cuckoo that calls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why get into such a lather about saving the polar bear, and more recently the cuckoo, when an ideal green world would be empty of all pets?
Times, Sunday Times
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As cities grow in all directions, horizontally and vertically, there is hardly any space left for trees to grow, for the cuckoos to build their nest or parrots to rest on branches and prattle away.
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After reaching the sky and meeting a descendant of Tereus, they convince the birds to help them create Nephelokokkygia (or Nephelococcygia, "Cloudcuckooland").
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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Robert Wyatt's Cuckooland, the ‘outsider’ on the list, is packed with songs that cover diverse subjects.
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The meadows support a range of grasses and plants including the lilac-coloured blooms of cuckooflower or lady's smock.
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Not the first cuckoo of spring.
Times, Sunday Times
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One from the south, one from the north and one from cloud cuckoo!
The Sun
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If you're a granny living on your own you won't get cuckooed, because you will have a network of friends around to support you.
Vulnerable tenants targeted by drug gang 'cuckoos'
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The cuckoo gets bigger and bigger; the little thrushes get smaller and smaller.
Christianity Today
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Flowers and berries of honeysuckle entwine new growth on woody tops of the banks and, in the footings, the poisonous scarlet berries of arum – or cuckoo pint – are unusually prolific.
Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
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“The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies, she brings us good tidings and she tells us no lies” went the song, and Michael recalled that Mary Bright had sounded much sweeter than any bird when she sang that song.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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A more delicate flower of riversides and damp meadows is lady's smock or cuckoo flower, with both names equally common.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other words a nationwide band of amateurs who watch the landscape for signs of seasonal change - the first cuckoo, the first frogspawn, the first conker, that sort of thing.
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Instead it has been turned into a traffic-free cycleway, bridleway and walkway, called the Cuckoo Trail.
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In drier areas one can expect to find wild angelicas, Iceland rush, cuckooflowers, red fescue, sea peas and many other species.
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I heard cuckoos in the woods near my homestay in Switzerland.
