Common cuckoo Common cuckoo The common cuckoo ("Cuculus canorus") is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, "Cuculiformes", which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals. This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, in its case of the sparrowhawk;
Little cuckoo Little cuckoo The little cuckoo ("Coccycua minuta") is a species of bird in the cuckoo family (Cuculidae) from South America and Panama. It was formerly placed in the genus "Piaya", but was moved to the reinstated genus "Coccycua" following the discovery that its closest living relatives are a couple species traditionally placed in "Coccyzus" or "Micrococcyx", rather than the other members of "Piaya". This species is about long and weighs . The adult is mainly chestnut brown, with a greyish lower belly, browner tail and white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is yellow, short, and decurved; the iris