Cuckoo commitment

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For each bird species that it lists

As new stapled paperback

Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher wrote Wild America

The Nightingale Its Story and Song and Other Familiar Song-Birds of Britain

Cuckoo commitmentAn entertaining and wide ranging romp through the cultural history of a peculiar bird. The cuckoo is peculiar for inspiring such divergent ideas: a symbol of foolishness to both Aristophanes and Cocoa Puffs, a reliable harbinger of spring and the hours of a cuckoo clock, and the source of innumerable innuendos inspired by a habit of laying eggs in others' nests. In this short, entertaining book, Cynthia Chris explores both the natural and cultural