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;
African cuckoo-hawk on their parents for about a week after their first flight. Wahlberg's eagle "Hieraaetus wahlbergi" has been recorded preying on the chicks of the African cuckoo-hawk. African cuckoo-hawk The African cuckoo-hawk, or African baza, ("Aviceda cuculoides") is a medium-sized raptor in the family Accipitridae so named because it resembles the common cuckoo, which is found in sub-Saharan Africa and along the eastern parts of Southern Africa. It prefers dense woodland and forest of either indigenous or exotic trees. The male is blackish-brown above with a grey mantle and chest with a blackish crest, the underparts are white marked with broad