Common Cuckoo

Photos copyright: monacoeye • Danube Delta, Romania • May 2009 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Common Cuckoo
Latin: Cuclus canorus
Other: Coucou gris
Family: Cuculidae • Cuckoos

The brown cuckoos are female and the grey ones here are probably male, although there is both a brown and a grey female form.

In the Danube Delta in May, you are never out of earshot of a cuckoo, and they are a fairly common sight, flying over the reedbeds and settling in trees.