What is the Cuckoo Bird's Environment?

He Cuckoo bird environment It is predominantly temperate, wooded and tropical regions.

There is a great diversity of species of knives in the tropics of the Old Continent and they live mainly between the treetops of dry leaves.

In order to establish themselves they usually look for hollow and clear spaces in the wooded regions. The cuckoo bird, belonging to the family Cuculidae, usually have a length of about 16 cm.

They are thin birds, and most have gray and brown hues in their plumage, and even some of them have white or red patches or bright flashes.

To date, more than 59 species of cuculid birds have been known. Most species live on trees, although a considerable minority lives on land.

This species usually has a timid behavior in thick vegetation, and are characterized by their particular song, which we can relate to the time marking on the"Cucú"clocks; The above, by the name of the cuckoo bird in English: Cuckoo Bird.

In the West, this species is rare and its presence is limited to the forests dominated by poplars that border large rivers, which generally cross an arid country.

However, some species are migratory, and given their nature, tend to have longer wings, conditioned for their life dynamics.

As a group, the cuckoos are birds of the forest, often inhabiting dense thickets that can make them difficult to observe. Some species, like many of the genus Cuculus, are often open forests.

The Guira (Guira guira) from South America and many members of the genera of Europe and Asia, such as the Clamator and Chrysococcyx, are found in the open savannah (prairie), but only where vegetation is present.

The roadrunners live in the open scrub and cactus desert, often in the absence of any large vegetation.

One of the most representative characteristics of the cuckoo bird is the habit of the parasitism of the breeding, predominant in the majority of these species.

This consists in putting the eggs of their young in the nests of other species of birds, so that these eggs are incubated by a lot of parents of aging.

The breeding of the cuckoo bird has the ability to mimic the eggs of the nest in which they are brooding; That is, he succeeds in deceiving the"surrogate parents"by making him believe that he is one of them.

One day the cuckoo's pigeon breaks the shell and the sooner throws the others to the ground and seizes the nest.

Given the wooded environment where they usually live, cuckoo birds feed on insects or insect larvae, especially on hairy caterpillars and grasshoppers; They also like to eat wild fruits.

Thanks to the characteristics of the forest ecosystems where it develops, the cuckoo bird has managed to stay in time and diversify according to the particularities of the geographical area in which it is.

With this, we can assure that this bird is present, in its various variants, anywhere in the world.

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