Common cuckoo
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The cuckoo, common cuckoo, European cuckoo or Eurasian cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
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Common cuckoo in flight
A Eurasian cuckoo (C. c. bakeri) from Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary in East Sikkim, India.
Cuckoo adult (top) mimics sparrowhawk, giving females time to lay eggs parasitically
Cuckold
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A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not genet
Common cuckoo
…of summer, in the first stanza, and in the chorus: In England, William Shakespeare alludes to the common cuckoo's association with spring, and with cuckoldry, in the courtly springtime song in his play Love's Labours Lost: In Europe, hearing the call of the common cuckoo is regarded as the first harbinger…
A reed warbler raising the chick of a common cuckoo; the term "cuckold" is derived from the cuckoo's tendency to lay eggs in the nests of other birds.
c. 1815 French satire on cuckoldry, which shows both men and women wearing horns
The Cuckold Carpenter Under the Bed of His Wife and Her Lover from an 18th-century edition of the Kalīla wa-Dimna