Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae (/kjuːˈkjuːlɪdiː/ kew-KEW-lih-dee) family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes (/kjuːˈkjuːlɪfɔːrmiːz/ kew-KEW-lih-for-meez)...
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Cuckoo is a 2024 horror film written and directed by Tilman Singer, and starring Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, and Dan...
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The Cuckoo may refer to: The Cuckoo (film), a Russian film The Cuckoo (novel), a Japanese novel "The Cuckoo" (song), a folk song The Cuckoo (TV series)...
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The diederik cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius), formerly dideric cuckoo or didric cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo family of birds, Cuculidae, which also...
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The cuckoo, common cuckoo, European cuckoo or Eurasian cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes...
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Look up cuckoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cuckoo is a bird of the family Cuculidae. Cuckoo may also refer to: Cuckoo (2009 film), a British...
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recognizes these 156 species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae. In addition to the 92 species whose name includes "cuckoo", the family includes anis, roadrunners...
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cuckoo clock is a type of clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo...
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Cuckoo is a British sitcom that began airing on BBC Three on 25 September 2012, repeating on BBC One, and in 2016 began airing worldwide on Netflix. Written...
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The Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus), also pied cuckoo or pied crested cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and...
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Cuckoo Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: 쿠쿠전자 주식회사; RR: Kuku Jeonja Jusik Hoesa) is a home appliance maker headquartered in Yangsan, South Korea. Cuckoo...
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The Cuckoo is a 2024 British television series broadcast on Channel 5 in April 2024. It stars Jill Halfpenny, Claire Goose and Lee Ingleby. A family who...
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Stepford Cuckoos are a set of fictional mutants, psychically linked quintuplets (Celeste Cuckoo, Esme Cuckoo, Irma "Mindee" Cuckoo, Phoebe Cuckoo, and Sophie...
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Cuckoo hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions in a table, with worst-case constant lookup...
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The cuckoo-roller or courol (Leptosomus discolor) is the only bird in the family Leptosomidae /lɛptoʊˈsɒmɪdiː/, which was previously often placed in the...
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The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is a member of the cuckoo family. Common folk names for this bird in the southern United States are rain...
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The Oriental cuckoo or Horsfields cuckoo (Cuculus optatus) is a bird belonging to the genus Cuculus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It was formerly classified...
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Cuckoo Moray, also credited as Cuckoo or Cukoo (1928 – 30 September 1981), was an Anglo-Indian dancer and actress in Indian cinema. Cuckoo was the queen...
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Cuckooing is a form of action, termed by the police, in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal in order to use it to deal,...
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Cuckoo-hawk may refer to either of two bird species: African cuckoo-hawk Madagascar cuckoo-hawk Hawk-cuckoo This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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grey-bellied cuckoo or the Indian plaintive cuckoo (Cacomantis passerinus) is a cuckoo with widespread occurrence throughout Asia. The grey-bellied cuckoo is one...
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Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx nisicolor), also known as the whistling hawk-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo found in north-eastern India, Myanmar, southern...
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The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitic behaviour of laying their eggs in the nests...
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hawk-cuckoo or Malay hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx fugax) is a bird in the family Cuculidae formerly considered conspecific with Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo and the...
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A cuckoo is a military slang term for a sniper, disguised in a sprawling tree. This word has been particularly applied to the Finnish Winter War snipers...
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The squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana) is a large and active species of cuckoo found in wooded habitats from northwestern Mexico to northern Argentina and...
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Cloud cuckoo land is a state of absurdly, over-optimistic fantasy or an unrealistically idealistic state of mind where everything appears to be perfect...
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Cuculus saturatus, better well known as the Himalayan cuckoo or Oriental cuckoo, is a brooding parasitic bird that is part of the Cuculidae family. The...
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The Sunda brush cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore...
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The great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis...
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