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Bösenbechhofen Weiher Kuckuck Cuculus canorus 20240608 RM 170659🐦

Photo: Reinhold Möller Ermell · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCuculiformesCuculidae
Birds

🐦Common Cuckoo

Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758

大杜鹃（学名：Cuculus canorus）为杜鹃科杜鹃属的鸟类，古名鳲鳩，别名郭公、布穀、鸠、喀咕（華北）、䳀（音同“軼”）。這種鳥類是夏季在歐洲和亞洲廣泛遷徙的遷徙鳥，冬季在非洲度過。它是巢寄生者，這意味著它將蛋產在其他鳥類物種的巢中，特別是林岩鷚、草地鷚和蘆葦鶯的巢中。儘管它的蛋比寄主的蛋大，但每種寄主巢中的蛋看起來都與寄主的蛋相似。成鳥也具有擬態能力，模仿北雀鷹；由於雀鷹是掠食者，這種擬態使雌鳥能夠在不被攻擊的情況下產卵。

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Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/560th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.11 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
13 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Cuckoo

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.11 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male117 kgWikidataQ18845
  • Female106 kgWikidataQ18845

Figures vary

  • 0.11 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.16 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.19 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
13 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Cuckoo yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCuculiformes
  5. ›familyCuculidae
  6. ›genusCuculus
  7. ›speciesCuculus canorus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderCuculiformes
  4. genusCuculus
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderCuculiformes
  11. genusCuculus
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Andean Condor — last shared an ancestor ≈ 86 million years ago.
In other languages
大杜鹃 (zh), kukułka zwyczajna (pl), cuco (es), kakukk (hu), koekoek (nl), وقواق شائع (ar) … and 26 more languages
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