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6 Things about Cuckoos and Roadrunners 1. Cuckoos are classified as belonging to their own order of birds, not closely related to other living birds. Only the weird hoatzin bird of the Amazon is distantly related to cuckoos. Cuckoos are most famous for their habit of brood parasitism. Only 2 out of 5 families of cuckoos comprise species that are brood par...	15 May 2008 07:06 GMT

Nest Parasitism: Cuckoos Really Do Imitate Hawks Two thousands years ago, Plutarch said that the cuckoo was transforming into a hawk. You just have to look at a cuckoo and a sparrowhawk side by side, and you will positively be smitten by the resemblance between the two in terms of plumage, size and posture. Of course, cuckoos have nothing to do with raptors, but th...	15 May 2008 04:17 GMT

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6 Things about Cuckoos and Roadrunners