Cuculidae


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Noun 1. Cuculidae - includes cuckoo; ani; roadrunner
bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
Cuculiformes, order Cuculiformes - cuckoos; touracos; etc.
cuckoo - any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
Cuculus, genus Cuculus - type genus of the Cuculidae
Coccyzus, genus Coccyzus - a genus of Cuculidae
genus Geococcyx, Geococcyx - roadrunners
Centropus, genus Centropus - a genus of Cuculidae
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It turns out there are indeed a few species from the cuculidae (cuckoo) family in the US, but not cuculus canorus, the common cuckoo so familiar across Europe and Asia.
Clocking the authentic call of the cuckoo
Upupidae (2 spp.), Coraciidae (1 sp.), Halcyonidae (1sp.), Alcedinidae (1 sp.), Meropidae (2 spp.), Cuculidae (2 spp.) belonged to order Coraciiformes.
STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN
Zentrygon frenata White-throated CH, P, S Quail-Dove CUCULIDAE, Cuckoo, Ani 23.
Aves del Santuario Nacional Tabaconas Namballe, vertiente oriental de los Andes del Norte Peruano
Dispharynx nasuta (Nematoda: Acuariidae) in Guira guira and Crotophaga ani (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae) no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Causes of bird losses recorded in a captive-bred wild bird flock between 2011 and 2015/Perdas registradas em um plantel de aves silvestres criadas em cativeiro, entre 2011 e 2015
One new species of the genus Sternostoma (Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae) from Cuculus canorus (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae) from Leningrad Province, Russia.
Outbreak of an unusual tracheal mite, Ptilonyssus morofskyi (Acarina: Rhinonyssidae), in canaries (Serinus canaria) with concurrent infection with Staphylococcus aureus and Macrorhabdus ornithogaster
Common taxa well represented in the literary corpus and widespread throughout the country occur in this category, such as house martins and swallows (Hirundinidae spp.), wagtails (Motacilla spp.), the crow (Corvus corax), the woodlark (Lulula arborea), the cuckoo (Cuculidae spp.), the blackbird (Turdus merula), the sparrow (Passer spp.
Birds in Portuguese literature
The family Gabuciniidae is represented in Brazil by two species: Piciformobia guirae Alzuet, Cicchino and Abrahamovich, found on Guira guira (Cuculidae) in Sao Paulo state; and Tocolichus allepimerus Gaud and Atyeo, which has Selenidera maculirostris (Ramphastidae) as type-host, reported in Santa Catarina state (Valim et al., 2011).
Feather mites (Acari, Astigmata) associated with birds in an Atlantic Forest fragment in Northeastern Brazil/ Acaros de pena (Acari: Astigmata) associados com aves em um fragmento de Mata Atlantica no Nordeste do Brasil
Family Number of Fatalities Parulidae 272 Turdidae 38 Emberizidae 38 Vireonidae 23 Regulidae 13 Troglodytidae 6 Cardinalidae 5 Icteridae 5 Mimidae 5 Certhiidae 2 Picidae 2 Tyrannidae 2 Unidentified 2 Cuculidae 1 Sturnidae 1
The effects of tower structure and weather conditions on avian mortality at three television towers in central Illinois
Cuculidae Centropus sensgalensis Senegal coucal 15.
Species diversity and richness of wild birds in Dagona-Waterfowl Sanctuary, Nigeria