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Cuckoo
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Cuckoo

Seasonal signifier, trackable trickster

“Have you heard the cuckoo yet?”

The male cuckoo’s repetitive and recognisable song, arriving with the flowering of the lady’s smock and the greening of the hawthorn, established it long ago as a staple of seasonal conversation.

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