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Sentence Examples Based on chemical and genetic data, I am trying to find out, whether there are different host-races in the cuckoo wasp. It sure didn't take new Portland coach Mo Cheeks long to pick up the company line on resident cuckoo Rasheed Wallace. Savage seems to be living in cloud cuckoo land in a couple of key respects. The inventive production is a work of art in its own right, every bit as cuckoo as the play. When we feel cuckoo, it's easy to feel victimized by our own cuckoo feelings. Any bad weather which came at the end of April or early May was dismissed as a mere cuckoo storm that would only last a day or two. We have a researcher who was a former chip designer who came to the conclusion that this trend is cuckoo. We have made it clear before that politicians who promise to abolish testing and assessment are living in cloud cuckoo land. India's policy-makers must emerge from their cuckoo world of neo-liberal economics and corporate-driven politics. Sure she's cuckoo, but I've seen newborn puppies who were more harmful than her. A fantastically coloured male cuckoo wrasse, all neon blues and gold, darted out in front of me. But what once looked like a fledgling of which they might be proud has turned into a cuckoo in the nest. Where once Nato was about European protection, is it not now becoming the cuckoo in the nest of European ambitions? We predicted, based on the egg mimicry hypothesis, that robins and catbirds would eject white cuckoo eggs and accept mimetic blue cuckoo eggs. And if anyone thinks the new leader is going to be different they're living in cloud cuckoo land. Wood pigeons were churring, providing a steady contra-bass to a splendid dawn chorus, but no more cuckoo. The cuckoo, which resembles a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify. The cuckoo wasp is predatory of sand wasps and lays its larvae in the nests of hosts after killing the host larvae. Should the bee return whilst the cuckoo-wasp is still present, the cuckoo wasp curls up into a tight ball. We investigate the interaction with a specialised cuckoo wasp whose larvae kill the beewolf larvae. Show More Sentences Her anti-feminist manifesto is the final crazy coating on this already cuckoo confection. Here, we consider how a parasitic life history has influenced the evolution of cuckoo egg size. The next day's very early start didn't gel too well with this renowned lollygagger but cuckoo clocks, fondue and chocolate wait for no man. They lay an egg in the nest of another bird, such as a reed warbler, and when the new cuckoo hatches it kicks out the reed warbler chicks. Some species of cuckoo wasps invade the nests of wasps or bees, kill the larvae they find, and deposit their own eggs on the stored provisions. The cuckoo wasp has no workers and therefore lays its eggs in the nest of the red wasp where they are reared by the red wasp workers. There are approximately 3000 species of cuckoo wasps throughout the world, including about 230 species in the United States and Canada. The cuckoo wasps, as well as the other Hymenoptera previously discussed, are unable to inflict any sort of sting. He checked the cuckoo clock on the wall for the time and it was only nine twenty-five. Developing young create a frothy mass commonly known as cuckoo spit on plants in the early spring and summer to hide from predators such as ants. While slugs will ignore it, there may be a small problem with cuckoo spit, or rather the tiny green bug that is encased in the spit. Like the first cuckoo of spring and the first swallow of the summer I have spotted the first Christmas light bedecked house! Contrary to what its name suggests, the black-faced cuckoo-shrike is not related to either the cuckoo or the shrike. Apart from cuckoo clocks, precision watches, and the versatile Army knife, the Swiss have their tradition of music and food. Soon, Alyssa was pacing around the large room, looking at the antique cuckoo clock every few minutes. Keep an eye out for cuckoo spit, a globule of froth that conceals the tiny froghopper, easily squashed between thumb and finger. In the cuckoo, a polygamist who continues with the female but for a very short time, the testes are small. Scientists have discovered there is a bird that can detect cuckoo chicks in the nest. As yet another scorching summer has drawn to a close in Mumbai, one hears the haunting cry of the pied crested cuckoo. So why do superb fairy-wrens appear to be unique in their ability to desert cuckoo nestlings? Show More Sentences It's the first study to show that birds have learned to recognize and reject cuckoo nestlings. They are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think they can transform the ugly concrete monstrosity into desirable homes. I heard a nightjar, and our nightingale gave us a virtuoso performance but still, no cuckoo. Any politician who thinks last weekend's results are a bolt from the blue has been living in cloud cuckoo land. The method helps the cuckoo chick secure the food supply it needs to satisfy its voracious appetite. It would be a huge step back to the past and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud cuckoo land. A cuckoo called from faraway, a greater spotted woodpecker hammered out an urgent tattoo. Last Sunday I heard the unmistakable sound of the first cuckoo, traditional harbinger of a spring election. As the fire dies down, a cuckoo fills the forest with its unmistakable call. The pheasant cuckoo is a bird that took Stauffer and me a succession of trips to locate. Two cuckoo and two magpie nestlings were removed from different nests a day before being tested together in a same artificial nest. The cuckoo, a bird we are both enchanted with, is one we are quite sure we've never seen. Any of the pro-Europeans who think the EU will be good for us must be living in cloud cuckoo land. Every year one of the topics commonly discussed here is who heard the first cuckoo of the season. From her I discovered simple joys like listening for the cuckoo and hearing stories around the fire. She was probably listening to her iPod and drifted off to cuckoo land again. Perhaps this explains that cuckoo '96 NBA offseason, which saw a handful of players land outrageous contracts. A cuckoo called, and swallows swooped low in east winds sucked dry by the hot land. He'd think that I'm cuckoo and refuse to associate me anymore. According to Rothstein's classification of hosts based on ejection frequencies, robins would be considered accepters of both white and blue cuckoo eggs. Show More Sentences Big female cuckoo wrasse, pollack, several bib and a John Dory were all I could see, although my view was slightly obscured by several fronds of kelp. Among the native birds, the whidah, weaverbirds, pigeon, sunbird, cuckoo, swift, heron, stork, pelican, and cormorant are some, which you would come across. In the next few weeks the willow warblers will take over the moor above the house and the cuckoo will pass through on its way to Scotland probably. The Common Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, the coucals, and the Hoatzin. The anis and guira cuckoo are group-living cooperative breeders. All day long, the tailorbirds forage for worms to feed their chick, which often turns out to be a plaintive cuckoo that's been left in their nest. We hoped to see some of the rarer birds that turn up here like chestnut winged cuckoo, Ashy minivet, Black crested baza, but were not really disappointed in not seeing them. The cuckoo arrived five days early this year, and birds like the blackcap and the chiffchaff are increasingly over-wintering in the UK rather than migrating to Africa. Busy brown rivers, carpets of wood anemones, dog violets, stitchworts, cuckoo flowers and primroses can all be enjoyed without the attention of the midge. A ground-dwelling cuckoo, Delalande's coucal lived in Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, along with an array of strange animals found there. So while superb fairy-wrens would be better off abandoning cuckoos at the egg stage, because this has become so difficult it pays to abandon the cuckoo chick instead. Without mincing words, I am afraid he is living in cloud cuckoo land. If you honestly believe that had he been the prime minister, Britain would not have aided our closest ally the US in Iraq then I'm sorry, you're living in cuckoo land. I turned out I wasn't the only one whose parents had gone cuckoo on them. We've got the hardest drinking youngsters in Europe and anyone who doesn't think that's storing up immense trouble for the future is living in cloud cuckoo land. Anybody who says that isn't the case is living in cloud cuckoo land. One thing is certain the once common cuckoo is now very rare indeed. Celandine, cow parsley, cuckoo pint, goosegrass and bluebells also only put out the most tentative shoots, but deadnettles did not appear at all, and rosemary did not flower. The cuckoo wasp gets its name because it, too, is a nest parasite. If the female cuckoo wasp is discovered invading the Mud-dauber's nest, she rolls into a ball and uses special armour plates on her body to protect her. Show More Sentences Unless you're cuckoo for curlicues, you may wonder the same thing. His seven species score was made up of dogfish, bullhuss, mackerel, cuckoo wrasse, pollock, pouting and ballan wrasse. The great spotted cuckoo was pictured in Penally prompting hundreds of twitchers to flock to the area. Pollution is another danger to wildlife such as the jewel anemone or the colourful cuckoo wrasse fish. The Chief Constable surely lives in cloud cuckoo land, he needs to forget what former Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom spouted and get out more. Or it could be froghoppers, or cuckoo spit, as these insects secrete a frothy saliva where they feed. The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. A member of the Royal Society, in the field of zoology he was the first person to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo. Then in spring, the open areas come alive with skylarks, meadow pipits, grasshopper warblers, cuckoo, curlew and snipe. The presence of alternate colour morphs in the same species is rare in birds, but frequent among the females of parasitic cuckoo species. You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all. Therefore, as one cuckoo morph increases in frequency, local host populations will become alerted specifically to that morph. Their foodplants are crucifers such as cuckoo flower, Jackby-the-hedge, honesty and Dame's violet. In this volume the author presents an account of the ants and cuckoo wasps. It also provides excellent habitat for other bird species, the meadow pipits and dunnocks, both of which become unsuspecting foster parents to cuckoo eggs. There is also the insect larva of the frog hopper found in April and commonly known as cuckoo spit because of the frothy mass which surrounds and protects the bug. Just as we entered my house the cuckoo clock, cuckooed twice. Lord Adonis must be living in cloud cuckoo land even to suggest so. A GANG who became the first crooks in Scotland to be convicted of a money-laundering scam known as cuckoo smurfing were yesterday jailed for almost 10 years. Alistair Darling believes the City bigmouths are bluffing, I hear, and they don't fancy swapping London, one of the world's greatest cities, for the land of the cuckoo clock. Show More Sentences In his senility, he still loves racistly, blesses racistly, shoots straight and is cuckoo with the notion that white folks are not white folks but just plain folks. But how will they fix it if Captain Cuprinol and his wicked woodworms have kidnapped the cuckoo and are planning to roast it for their festive meal? Home to the pretty cuckoo wrasse, the fearsome-looking wolf fish, deeplet sea anemones, light bulb sea squirts, edible sea urchins and bottle brush hydroids. The cuckoo, with its single gaping beak, cannot duplicate the visual pull of a throng of baby warbler beaks, so it tugs at the parents' other heartstring. Examples from Classical Literature They might be said to be about three weeks behind time, and the cuckoo a fortnight. My lack of knowledge of the habits of the drongo cuckoo is, however, not my chief reason for desiring to write about it. May not the blackness and the forked tail of the drongo cuckoo have arisen in the same way as they arose in the king-crow? Ah, Reggie, you will not be singing in the woods near esher when the tiresome cuckoo imitates Haydn's toy symphony next spring! The common coucal or crow-pheasant is a cuckoo that builds a nest and incubates its eggs. Swallows were flying about us, and the chewink and cuckoo were heard near at hand. The cuckoo waited for a while for the hoopoe to return to him the tuft which he had lent her. The subalpine people, the Germans and the Slaves, ask the cuckoo how many years they still have to live. The fish and the rain remind us of the myth of the phallical and pluvial cuckoo. On this principle the Bengali name for the pied crested cuckoo is kola bulbul. For after twenty-three years of marriage, the note of loverly extravagance is as rare as the note of the cuckoo in July. When one hears the European cuckoo he regrets that he has ever heard a cuckoo clock. When first discovered it contained two pipit's eggs and the egg of a cuckoo. The wryneck was thought to build the nest, and hatch and feed the young of the cuckoo. Less likely birds that have occurred in Britain are the belted kingfisher and American yellow-billed cuckoo. The cuckoo-shrike is not nearly related to the cuckoo, nor has it the parasitic habits of the latter. For you know, nuncle, the hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, that it had its head bit off by its young. And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind. Unfortunately for the peace of mankind the coucal is not the only cuckoo that lifts up its voice in the night. This makes me think of a curious bird I noticed in my drives at San Diego, the roadrunner, classed with the cuckoo. Show More Sentences At stated periods it makes a noise exactly like a cuckoo clock. I'm all alone here except for my swallow and cuckoo and corncrake. The buzzard, the cuckoo, and the cowbird are the striking exceptions. The cuckoo clock struck nine, and Claude made a gesture of annoyance. Perhaps it was only the striking of the cuckoo clock in my room. For it's not I'll be the cuckoo to push you out, McMurrough, lad. And what is this cuckoo which has thus bewitched all the poets? Lighting his lamp, he looked at the cuckoo clock upon the wall. All was silent, save the tick-tick of the cuckoo clock in the corner. I sat down opposite her and glanced at a cuckoo clock on the wall. These include cuckoo pint which have bright orange poisonous berries, as well as the fruit of cherry laurel, privet and rhamnus. The drongo cuckoo is as like the king-crow as one pea is to another. The drongo cuckoo is a bird of which I know practically nothing. Late vernal equinoctial gales contemporary with the gowk or cuckoo. In Bavaria the hoopoe is said to play the part of attendant to the cuckoo. What Canadian birds could be substituted for the mavis and the cuckoo? Passed up by his young mother, Jack is saved by a backstreet makeshift midwife, Dr Madeleine, suturing a cuckoo clock on to his chest. Instead, they can look to the 24-foot tall cuckoo clock that recently arrived at PDX airport. Children, expensive watches and cuckoo clocks have also been deployed over the years. Woodcock and tawny owls live in the wood and the green woodpecker and cuckoo are summer visitors. Show More Sentences The cuckoo, like the woodcock, is supposed to have its forerunner. The place where first the cuckoo sings, Is by the peat pits on the hills. In the right circumstances, even cuckoo parasitism can turn into a mutually beneficial relationship, Canestrari and her colleagues argue in the March 21 Science. This is a world premiere, with an animated cuckoo clock chorus. Chicks of the great spotted cuckoo don't directly kill chicks of the carrion crows, so the crow parents have a chance of producing their own offspring. But beside him stood an old woman, with a ragged mantle over her head, leaning on a staff, the top of which was carved into the shape of a cuckoo. Their neon-red lights and windowless facades are even in the picturesque little towns that are known primarily for their cuckoo clocks and gingerbread. The cuckoo lays its egg in the strange bird's nest, and when the young one is hatched it shoulders its foster-brothers out and breaks at last the nest that has sheltered it. They had been looking at everything from egg timers to cuckoo clocks. With a little help from her cheeky cuckoo clock, mischievous mop bucket and a nice cup of tea, Mavis moves ever closer to making her dream come true. Find more words! 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