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Our Cuckoos are ghosts of the underbrush, slipping thru the woods like shadows. Their loud kuk — kuk — kuk — kuks are entirely out of keeping with the birds' manners and appearance. Sharp eyes are needed to spy the slim satin-olive specter peering in crouching position from its perch.
The superstitious consider them ill omens and they are accused of robbing other birds' nests. There seems to be good ground for this accusation altho I have never surprised one in commission of the crime.
Southern Canadian provinces. West to South Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma. South to Gulf States.
Cuckoos lose their shyness during the breeding season and then can be more closely studied. Brooding birds will remain on their nests until a human intruder can almost touch them. (I have slid a cautious finger down our eastern Yellowbill's back more than once while the stroked bird regarded me with no fright in its eyes.)
Western North America. East to Colorado and western Texas.
A tree which is sometimes 40–50 feet high, distributed from the Delaware River Valley (New Jersey), southward to shores of Tampa Bay, northern Alabama and Mississippi; westward to southern Ontario, eastern Nebraska, eastern borders of Indian Territory, Louisiana and Brazos River Valley, Texas.