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;
Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Man, possibly a member of the Beresteyn family is a 1632 portrait painting by Rembrandt. It shows a man with a lace collar "au confusion", which was a new fashion in the 1630s replacing older-styled millstone collars. It is pendant to "Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family", and both are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt created this painting as a pendant to the MET's portrait of a man, probably as a wedding pendant. Only