Sentence examples for cuckoo was not from inspiring English sources

Bristow's case: Prove that the death of his adopted sister, the famous model Lula Landry, known as Cuckoo, was not a suicide, but a murder.

Like other species of Coccyzus, Dark-billed Cuckoo is not a nest parasite and instead raises its own young, which can number as many as five per clutch.

Recent genetic data indicate, however, that despite these similarities the Dwarf Cuckoo is not a member of the genus Coccyzus, but belongs to the genus Coccycua.

The cuckoo is not a rare bird, it's just hard to see and not many of them stop in New York City during their migration; that made its sighting a bit of thrill, Ms. Adams said.

So the call of the cuckoo is not good news to smaller avian species, and I am pleased that, in our part of Gloucestershire, it does not seem to be such a common visitor.

It is true that yesterday I saw a cuckoo apparently flying for its life because an annoyed tree-pipit was chasing it, and that when it outdistanced the little bird it called many times, but the voice of the cuckoo is not the most noticeable bird-note now.

(That this ability to reject eggs is evolved is evidenced by the fact that in Iceland, where cuckoos are not indigenous, pied wagtails and meadow pipits will accept cuckoo eggs placed in their nests by researchers).

Cuckoo Song is not without its bum notes, and Hardinge has an exasperating tendency to overwrite, but in a weird sort of way it only adds to the novel's charm.

Such was not the case for "The Cuckoo's Calling".

One of the birds sampled was not a migratory bird (willow tit), and 2 birds were not passerines (cuckoo and wryneck).

Her mystery "The Cuckoo's Calling" wasn't given the same kind of scrutiny -- because no one knew it was hers.