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Still, I support Harrelson and Stewart signing on to a project this cuckoo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

"Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things -- Albert Einstein's physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind -- and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

The cuckoo is a parasitic bird that deposits its eggs in the nests of other birds, who then raise its hatchlings with their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

The estate is home to rare wildlife, including curlew, mountain bumblebees, lapwings, red squirrels, cuckoo and merlin, as well as Atlantic salmon and critically endangered eels, but the conservationists say nature could be richer still.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

I would awaken to the sound of the cuckoo in the tamarind tree that shaded the courtyard.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

These efforts have helped protect a refuge for birds including willow flycatchers and yellow-billed cuckoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024

Which variant the host birds learn depends on the abundance both of the cuckoos and of the birds of prey.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

Pigeons, meanwhile, which were originally thought to be cousins with flamingos, belong to an entirely different branch and actually bear a much stronger genetic resemblance to cuckoos.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2024

While I saw birds aplenty, heard them too—wood pigeons, cuckoos, thrushes—I wondered if England had no human souls.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

She said she was cuckooed for months, and became "a prisoner in my own home".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

When the BBC visited the London properties with the Met police, officers said squalid conditions were the norm when it comes to cuckooed premises.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

During the week of action, 904 of these "cuckooed" homes were visited by law enforcement, and 1,138 vulnerable people were safeguarded, including 573 children.

From BBC ● May 26, 2021

When William Butler Yeats paid his first visit to that high priestess of occultism, Madame Blavatsky, the lady's pet cuckoo came out of a broken Swiss clock and cuckooed at him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wooden bird, looking down at her in friendly fashion, "cuckooed" eight times, flapped his wings at her and disappeared.

From The Captives by Sir Hugh Walpole

However, figures shared exclusively with the BBC show 1,539 incidents of cuckooing were reported to police in London between May 2025 and April 2026.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

It had 52 cuckooing referrals last year, compared to 29 in the previous 12 months.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

Sgt Elise Wilson, who works closely with organisations like Positive Steps, said it was just one way cuckooing can be uncovered.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

Positive Steps was recently awarded £344,000 to expand its cuckooing service, which had previously only been operating with one dedicated staff member, Gillian Anderson.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

And every now and then those cuckooing milkmaids called him, sometimes at a distance, sometimes at his very ear.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon