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Timely: from cursed clocks to wind-up dresses, clock imps to clocks with faces, here's my collection of vintage timepieces.

Bornean Ground-Cuckoos (Carpococcyx radiceus), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, Sabah, Borneo

photograph by Clement Lee

Catch up Wisptober Day 8: Cuckoo

 " The king of the Changelings and his loyal birds were always a rare sight at the fairy court. It seems that strange Mornach loved much more to walk the human realm." Slowly catching up! I really needed a bit of time off after October but I am slowly getting back to those last 3 days I missed! :)

HUNTER SCHAFER as GRETCHEN

Cuckoo (2024) dir. Tilman Singer

CUCKOO (2024)

#544, a pine cone- I mean a striped cuckoo chick!

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Nightingales attacking a cuckoo trying to lay an egg in their nest By: Unknown photographer From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971

March 27, 2024 - Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo (Surniculus velutinus) Found in the Philippines, these cuckoos live in forests and bamboo woodlands. They feed on insects, foraging in the canopy of the forest. Nothing is known about their breeding behavior, though their close relatives are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species. Though they are classified as a species of Least Concern by the IUCN their population is thought to be declining due to continuing habitat destruction.

Fear Its Call

Groove-Billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)

Family: Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concerned

While many species of cuckoos are brood parasites that trick other birds into incubating their eggs and raising their young, the 3 species of large-billed, black-feathered cuckoos in the genus Crotophaga, known collectively as Anis, are not, and the Groove-Billed Ani (notable for being possibly the most common Ani species) is no exception: every Groove-Billed Ani lives in a small social group consisting of 4-10 individuals, with the number of individuals in a group always being even. This even numbering is the result of the way the flock is organised, as each flock is made up of 2-5 pairs of mates, and while each individual will only breed with their mate all individuals in the group work to establish and defend a shared territory and to construct a large, cup-shaped shared nest into which every female in the flock will lay eggs. Found in grasslands, shrublands and other open habitats, the Grooved-Billed Ani is native to much of northern South America and southern North America (although on occasion it may be observed as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Canada as a vagrant) and feeds on fruits, seeds, insects and small vertebrates, with its large and extremely powerful beak being well suited to breaking hard seed shells as well as the exoskeletons and bones of prey. Throughout the majority of its range this species is resident (non-migratory), but in the northernmost extremes of its North American range it may seasonally travel south to avoid cold weather and low resource availability during the winter. 

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1972-Crotophaga-sulcirostris

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I've collected some weird vintage bird imagery, from bird hats to bird people, ghost birds to giant birds.

African Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa

photograph by Sharp Photography

CUCKOO (2024)

Me still recovering from 2023

Dan Stevens in Cuckoo

greg davies? probably the hottest man alive. im 5ft 2. id climb him like a fucking tree tbh.