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What does a cuckoo sound like?

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A Cuckoo is a bird. It lays one egg in a nest of another bird species. When the Cuckoo chick hatches, it ejects from the nest the eggs and/or chicks of the birds which built the nest, and is fed all the food by the "parent" birds. The parent Cuckoo takes no part in bringing up it's chick. The Cuckoo grows to be a large bird and can look daft sitting on a tiny nest, being fed by the small "parent" birds like finches, etc. The name Cuckoo comes from it's call - "Cook-koo" as in the Cuckoo clock.

There is also a Flower called the Cuckoo.

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There are many different types of Cuckoo birds, but two types have the familiar sound coo-coo-coo coo-coo-coo. They are, the Common Cuckoo and the Eurasian Cuckoo

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What is the sound of a cuckoo called?

it is called crazy or if the clock is cooking


Is cuckoo and example of onomatopoeia?

Yes. An onomatopeoia is a word made to sound like whatever it is describing. The Cuckoo bird makes a "cuckoo" sound as its call.


Which bird makes a coo noise?

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What are special features of the cuckoo?

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What sound does a bird make?

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