Amazing Facts About Koyal, Cuckoo in English
As sweet as the voice of the cuckoo bird is, it is many times more clever than that. It eats eggs from the nests of other birds and lays its own eggs in its nest, in such a situation the poor bird, knowingly or unknowingly, lays the Koyal’s own eggs. This is just a matter of his cleverness… let us now get some more information about him.
12 interesting facts about cuckoo in English
1. There are about 120 types of cuckoo.
2. More than half of the cuckoos hatch their eggs in the nests of other birds.
3. The food of cuckoo is only small insects. It mostly eats hairy insects, caterpillars, crickets and ants.
4. The cuckoo never lands on the ground. It always lives on trees.
5. The habitat of the cuckoo is the forest and it lives for about 6 years in the forest.
12 interesting facts about cuckoo
6. The voice of the cuckoo is the sweetest of all birds. But only the male cuckoo makes sounds.
7. The length of the world’s smallest cuckoo ‘Little Bronze Cuckoo’ is only 6 inches and its weight is equal to that of a human testicle. (approx. 17g).
8. The length of the world’s largest cuckoo ‘Channel Billed Cuckoo’ is 25 inches and weight is 630 grams.
9. There is also a clock which makes the sound of a cuckoo which is called ‘Cuckoo Clock’. It was invented by ‘Franz Anton Ketterer’ in 1730.
interesting facts about cuckoo in English
10. Koyal is found on all continents except Antarctica.
11. Cuckoo is also the state bird of Jharkhand.
12. Cuckoo is known by different names in different countries of the world. Like: Coucou in France, Koekoek in Holland, Kuckuk in Germany, Kukush-ka in Russia, Kak-ko in Japan and Koel (Koyal) in India.