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unusual facts about Cuckoo-shrike



Antonia Bernath

Bernath was cast as jealous sister Jimi in upcoming British thriller Cuckoo, co-starring Richard E. Grant and Laura Fraser.

Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike

Other subspecies that have been described such as Walter Koelz's pileatus (described from the Lushai Hills) and insulae (from Sri Lanka) are not considered valid.

Beech Fork Lake

Thousands of square miles of Appalachian hardwood trees surround the Beech Fork Lake area, providing a habitat for wood warblers, vireos, thrushes, chats, cuckoos, ovenbirds, and many other forest dwelling birds.

Bhai Shaminder Singh

Bhai Harnirpal Singh "Cuckoo", his younger brother, later stepped into his shoes and managed to become MLA Muktsar.

Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve

The lowveld woodlands harbour purple-crested lourie, emerald cuckoo, red-backed mannikin, golden-tailed woodpecker, gorgeous bushshrike, white-faced owl and a number of raptors like white-backed vulture, gymnogene, black-chested snake eagle, Wahlberg's eagle and long-crested Eagle.

Bombus vestalis

It is similar in appearance to another cuckoo bumblebee: Bombus bohemicus but is distinguishable by either looking at the length of the antennal segments or dissection and comparison of the genitalia.

Cameroonian Highlands forests

Seven species of birds are strictly endemic: the Bamenda Apalis (Apalis bamendae), Bangwa Forest Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis), White-throated Mountain-babbler (Kupeornis gilberti), Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta), Bannerman's Weaver (Ploceus bannermani), Mount Kupe Bush-shrike (Telophorus kupeensis) and Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani), which is a cultural icon for the Kom people who live in the area.

Cardamine pratensis

Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower or lady's smock), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia.

Castle Eden Railway

Although its route actually never went near Castle Eden, it was also informally known as the "Cuckoo Line".

Common Hawk-Cuckoo

It is found in the lower elevations (mostly below 1000m) of the Himalayas but in the higher areas, the Large Hawk-Cuckoo tends to be more common.

They can be confused with the Large Hawk-Cuckoo, which, however, has dark streaks on the throat and breast.

Cuckoo pint

Cuckoo Pint refers to more than one species of the genus Arum.

Cypripedium calceolus

In Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov's "In the Forests", a znakharka (Russian wise woman) calls this Adam's head, Adam's grass, and Cuckoo's slippers and says it is good for every ill including driving away evil spirits.

Edgar Chance

He named his daughter Cardamine, alluding to the scientific name of the Cuckoo Flower Cardamine pratensis.

Fort Crockett

In 1932, Fort Crocket received eleven A-8 Shrike attack aircraft, the US military's very first all-metal monowing combat aircraft.

Friedrich Boie

Friedrich Boie was the author of several bird species and the hummingbird genus Glaucis, the swallow genus Progne, the cuckoo-shrike genus Minivet, the passerine genus Lipaugus, the owl genus Athene and among other genera the genus Chrysococcyx.

Gabela, Angola

The Gabela Akalat (Sheppardia gabela), a species of bird, was first recorded here by scientists and subsequently named after the town, as were the Gabela Helmet-shrike (Prionops gabela) and Gabela Bush-shrike (Laniarius amboimensis); these endangered species are only found in the uplands near Gabela.

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

A special alarm note is raised in the presence of Shikras that has been transcribed as a loud kwei-kwei-kwei...shee-cuckoo-sheecuckoo-sheecuckoo-why!.

Hester Shaw

Throughout A Darkling Plain Hester spends most of the time with her companion Shrike being both a trader and later assassin-for-hire, earning her the nickname the "Angel Of Death."

An old friend of Hester's is the Stalker Shrike, who carried her to Strole after finding her on the shores of the great hunting ground which is somewhat unusual, considering Stalkers (resurrected soldiers converted into robot-like creatures) are not supposed to have emotions.

Heywood Sumner

In his mid-forties he relocated to Cuckoo Hill, near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England, and spent the rest of his life actively investigating and recording the archaeology, geology and folklore of the New Forest and Cranborne Chase regions.

Holly Earl

This was followed by her first film role as May Bailey in Possession (2002) directed by Neil LaBute. She has then gone on to appear in the popular UK shows Doctor Who, Skins and Cuckoo.

I'm a Cuckoo

The video for "I'm a Cuckoo" features Scottish Olympic 100m gold medallist Allan Wells as a running coach and lead singer, Stuart Murdoch, as an aspiring runner.

Killer Shrike

Killer Shrike was oddly absent when the team was blackmailed by Night Thrasher into providing relief for Rwandan refugees.

Kuckuck Schallplatten

Kuckuck Schallplatten (engl.: Cuckoo Records) is a German record label founded in August 1969 by Eckart Rahn, Mal Sondock and the advertising agency ConceptData in Munich, growing out of his music publishing company

Lanius

The prehistoric shrike Lanius miocaenus has been described from Early Miocene fossils found at Langy, France, though its placement in this genus is not universally accepted due to its fairly high age.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

Vieillot is commemorated in the binomials of a number of birds, such as Lybius vieilloti (Vieillot's Barbet) and Saurothera vieilloti (the Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo).

Louis-Claude Daquin

Among the most famous of his works are the Swiss Noel (Noël Suisse, No. XII of his Nouveau livre), and Le coucou ("The Cuckoo") which is from his 1735 harpsichord suite, Pièces de clavecin, Troisième Livre.

Malshej Ghat

The site is home to hundreds of different kinds of flora and fauna especially the avian population such as quails, rails, crakes, flamingos and cuckoos.

Meadow Pipit

This species is one of the most important nest hosts of the Cuckoo, and it is also an important prey species for Merlins and Hen Harriers.

Michael J. Estocin

Although his aircraft was severely damaged by an exploding missile, he reentered the target area and relentlessly prosecuted a SHRIKE attack in the face of intense antiaircraft fire.

Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

A few of the other rockets and missiles developed or tested at China Lake have included the Mighty Mouse, Zuni, Sidewinder, Shrike, Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) and Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).

Päijänne Tavastia

In laymen's terms: The coat of arms sports a depiction of the ancient water goddess Vellamo as a mermaid, with a cuckoo to represent the influence of the numerous post-World War II Karelian refugees in Lahti and the surrounding regions.

Philaenus spumarius

The larvae are well known for the self-generated foam nests, that can be observed in Spring in meadows (especially on Cuckoo Flowers, Cardamine pratensis and broom, Genista species).

Red Faction II

Lance Henriksen provides the voice of the squad leader, Molov, and Jason Statham voices the vehicle expert, Shrike.

Rotherfield railway station

See also the nearby Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station on the Oxted - Heathfield - Polegate line (Cuckoo Line)

Shining Bronze Cuckoo

Insectivorous, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo eats insects that are avoided by other birds, such as caterpillars, particularly those of the magpie moth, and beetles, particularly ladybirds.

Shrike

The shrikes vary in the extent of their ranges, with some species like the Great Grey Shrike ranging across the northern hemisphere to the Newton's Fiscal which is restricted to the island of São Tomé.

Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove

The taxonomy of the Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove is disputed, and some authorities split it into two species: M. amboinensis (Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and M. phasianella (Brown Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba.

Theo Ngoni

After the destruction of Cloud Nine, their subsequent capture and escape from the Green Storm, and the witnessing of the duel between the Stalker Fang and Shrike, Wren and Theo escape with Tom Natsworthy on the Jenny Haniver.

A chance encounter with Hester Shaw and Shrike frees him, and he convinces them to help him rescue Lady Naga.

Three Cuckoo Clocks

Three Cuckoo Clocks (German:Die drei Kuckucksuhren) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Nina Vanna and Nils Asther.

Uxfest

The Blood Divine, Medulla Nocte, Scarabaeus, Hatred, Sanctum, Epitome, Shrike, Singuia, T.B.A.C., Gromoxin 100, Suffering, Baby Eater, Godzilla.

Varied Triller

The Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) like its better-known relative the White-winged Triller, is a smaller member of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae.

Vespula

Vespula austriaca (Panzer, 1799) – Red Cuckoo Wasp


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