Common cuckoo
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| Gowk | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Faimily: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Cuculus |
| Species: | C. canorus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cuculus canorus | |
The gowk, (Cuculus canorus) is a memmer o the cuckoo order o birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis an the coucals.
This species is a widespread simmer migrant tae Europe an Asie, an winters in Africae. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests o ither bird species, particularly o Dunnocks, Meadow Pipits, an Eurasian Reed Warblers.
Taxonomy
[eedit | eedit soorce]The gowk is a memmer o the cuckoo order o birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis an the coucals.[1] The species' binomial name is derived frae the Latin cuculus (the cuckoo) an canorus (melodious; frae canere, meaning tae sing).[2] In Inglis an ither leids, the gowk faimily gets its common name "cuckoo" an genus name bi onomatopoeia for the cry o the male gowk.[3] The Ingliswird "cuckoo" comes frae the Auld French cucu an it first appears aboot 1240[4] in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Simmer haes come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modren Inglis.
There are fower subspecies warldwide:[5]
- C. c. canorus, the nominate subspecies, wis first describit bi Linnaeus in 1758. It occurs frae the Breetish Isles through Scandinavia, north Roushie an Siberie tae Japan in the east, an frae the Pyrenees through Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mongolie, northren Cheenae an Korea. It winters in Africae an sooth Asie.
- C. c. bakeri, first describit bi Hartert in 1912, breeds in wastren Cheenae tae the Himalayan fithills in northren Indie, Nepal, Myanmar, north-wast Thailand an soothren Cheenae. Durin winter it is foond in Assam, East Bengal an sooth-east Asie.
- C. c. bangsi wis first describit bi Oberholser in 1919 an breeds in Iberie, the Balearic Islands an north Africae, spendin winter in Africae.
- C. c. subtelephonus, first describit bi Zarudny in 1914, breeds in central Asie frae Turkestan tae soothren Mongolie. It migrates tae soothren Asie an Africae for winter.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Cuculus canorus". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 16 Julie 2012. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - ↑ Robinson, R. A. (2005). "Cuckoo Cuculus canorus". BirdFacts: Profiles of Birds Occurring in Britain & Ireland. British Trust for Ornithology. BTO Research Report 407. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
- ↑ Snow, D. W.; Perrins, C. (1997). The Birds of the Western Palearctic (Abridged ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854099-X.
- ↑ Lockwood, W. B. (1993). The Oxford Dictionary of British Bird Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866196-2.
- ↑ "Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)". Internet Bird Collection. Lynx Edicions. Archived frae the original on 17 Apryle 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
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- The Rules of Life. BBC/Open University. 2005.
- Ageing and sexing (PDF; 2.4 MB) by Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ARKive Still photos and videos. Archived 2008-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) Archived 2013-04-17 at the Wayback Machine videos an photos at the Internet Bird Collection
- (European Cuckoo = ) Common Cuckoo - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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