The cuckoo bird can be found on four continents – Northern Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. It has a long, slender body that is grayish-brown on top and white below with horizontal barring on the underside. The wings and tail feathers are grayish-brown. Normally, the male bird is the most colorful, but in this case the female is more colorful being a red-brown rather than grayish-brown. Cuckoo birds are generally about 13 inches in length. The American variety hatches and rears its own young while the European species lays its eggs in the nests of other birds who raise the little ones as their own. The cuckoo sounds its call again and again with a sound similar to that of saying cuckoo.
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