Gowk | |
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Conservation status
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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 Linnaeus, 1758
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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.
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]
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