Judy Blume

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

American Author

John Burnside

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

Scottish Writer

Joan Allen

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

American Actress

Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

American Novelist

Alan Coren

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

British Writer

Mike Portnoy

I love my family more than life itself, but I can only sit at home by my pool eating barbecue food so many days before I go cuckoo.

American Musician

Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

British Novelist

Kirsten Dunst

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

Actress

Wilson Mizner

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

American Dramatist

Shenaz Treasury

I don't drink coffee: it makes me cuckoo!

The word 'cuckoo' mimics the sound the bird makes, known as onomatopoeia.

Bird Call Onomatopoeia

'Cuckoo' can signify the arrival of spring or change of season in poetry and literature.

Seasonal Reference

When calling someone 'cuckoo', use it in a light-hearted or casual context.

Casual Expression

Despite its meaning, 'cuckoo' is not typically seen as a harsh insult.

Not Insulting

A cuckoo clock is characterized by its sound; ensure you stress this alongside its visual design.

Sound Association

Cuckoo clocks are traditional and often seen as vintage or collectible items.

Historical Object

Understand 'cuckoo' as a term for a specific type of drug-related crime in the UK.

UK Crime Term

Cuckoos take advantage of the weak, implying a moral judgment of the act.

Vulnerability Exploitation

 much yellow around the base of the beak you can see there's quite a dark beak on the common cuckoo was so quite a heavenly spotted tail and barred with that little white trim on the edge of it so I think it was the common cuckoo like I said I didn't get a really good look at the beef but it didn't look like it had very much yellow in it at all the

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 lovely birding sightings while we were while we were busy following up on on some of the guys that just let me know that there's some elephants in the area while we were moving through we spotted some what old starlings and that the Jacobins cuckoo that I said was a jacobins what's in fact I love violence

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 Margaret back north with the rest of the cuckoos that have already left so he might be strategy and overwinter and I wonder if he's gonna enjoy a diet of something other than caterpillars which is what the cuckoos enjoy okay well we're gonna continue on as I said heading into the area of Tandy from this

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 bright it's beautiful it's got this call that just reminds you that summer is on its way and a change of this dry winter season so for me it's that's one of the birds I always look forward to seeing like I said the carmine bee-eaters they are a beautiful bird cuckoo species

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 Our friends think we're mad. Our parents think we're cuckoo. Because, you know, we both come from families that really look up to humility and wisdom, but we both like to live larger than life. I believe in the concept of a Raja Be a dude before you can become an ascetic.

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 Reed warblers are good at ejecting poorly matching cuckoo eggs. But if one hatches in their nest, they’ll care for it even after it’s grown six times their size. Though chick rejection is a rarer phenomenon, there are some noteworthy examples.

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 that's as beautiful spots a little bit of elevation for the cuckoo and the wind blowing over the the lips or should I say the wet tongue is what helps birds to cool down that is their cooling system two term called gala fluttering

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 the hosts always desert a single egg they never desert a single chick the cuckoo chick is astonishing this strong and has a distinctive hollow back that helps balance the hosts egg or chick before throwing it out of the nest

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 those of you unfamiliar with cuckoo biology they obviously never meet their own offspring right so that thing's parents would have laid well its mother would have laid an egg inside the virtual starlings nest and I suspect

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 said it was a cuckoo it looked like either a Jacobin or love Ellen's cuckoo I didn't see the colors very well the levan it's got white black lines on the white chest and the Jacobin just says