Cuckoo is commonly known as cuckoo, which is similar in size to pigeon, but slender, with dark gray upper body and transverse spots on its abdomen.
Before and after the ear seed, it can be heard almost day and night with its loud and somewhat bleak cry, which is characterized by four tones-"Cuckoo Cuckoo" and "Cut the wheat quickly! Cut the wheat quickly! " "Quickly broadcast the valley! Quickly broadcast the valley! " So it is commonly known as cuckoo.
Habitat in open woodlands, especially near water. Often sing in the morning, 24-26 times per minute, and stop singing for half an hour. Sexual cowardice often hides among leaves. Usually I only hear singing, but I seldom see it.
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Rhododendron is a general term for birds of the family Ericaceae. The common species are Rhododendron grandiflora, Rhododendron trisylla and Rhododendron trisylla. The cuckoo calls like "cuckoo, cuckoo", so it is also called cuckoo; Three cuckoos cry like "Mi Guiyang", so some places call it Mi Guiyang; Four-tone cuckoo, also known as Zigui bird song, seems to "cut the wheat quickly" and "cut the wheat and cut the grain".
There is another story about cuckoo.
Liu Kezhuang, a Song Dynasty poet, wrote in "Recalling Qin E" that "Du Yu crows into blood, while the willow blows into snow. Blowing into snow, light smoke and rain, Jiangnan March. " The word refers to a fairy story: At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, Du Yu, the king of Shu, proclaimed himself emperor. At that time, a man who came back from the dead, turtle spirit, became prime minister. At that time, the flood was a disaster, and the people were miserable. The turtle spirit dug Wushan and opened the Three Gorges, except for the flood.
Seeing that he was successful, Wangdi gave him the throne and lived in seclusion in the western hills. Du Yu paid attention to teaching people to farm before his death, but he did not change his nature after his death. He turned into a cuckoo (also called cuckoo), and every spring, he always called people to "cuckoo" and "cuckoo quickly" to remind people to sow in time.
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