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The cuckoo family includes birds like roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. Many cuckoo species are brood parasites that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, though most raise their own young. Cuckoos are generally slender, medium-sized birds that are often arboreal but some species are terrestrial. They have a worldwide distribution and feed on insects, larvae and various small animals as well as fruit.

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The cuckoo family includes birds like roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. Many cuckoo species are brood parasites that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, though most raise their own young. Cuckoos are generally slender, medium-sized birds that are often arboreal but some species are terrestrial. They have a worldwide distribution and feed on insects, larvae and various small animals as well as fruit.

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he cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes.[1][2][3] The
cuckoo family includes the roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals
and anis are sometimes separated as distinct families,
the Centropodidae and Crotophagidae respectively.
The cuckoos are generally medium-sized slender birds. The majority are arboreal, with a sizeable
minority that areterrestrial. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority of species
being tropical. Some species aremigratory. The cuckoos feed on insects, insect larvae and a
variety of other animals, as well as fruit. Many species arebrood parasites, laying their eggs in the
nests of other species, but the majority of species raise their own young.
In Greek mythology, Zeus transformed himself into a cuckoo so that he could seduce Hera.
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1 Description

2 Distribution and habitat


2.1 Migration

3 Behaviour and ecology


3.1 Breeding

3.1.1 Brood parasitism

3.2 Calls

4 Taxonomy and systematics

5 References

6 Other sources

7 External links

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