Yep, very common sound to hear in European forests and a sign that spring is here.

What's also interesting about them is that they don't build nests. They just lay their eggs in other birds' nests and let them take care of their young. The baby cuckoo will throw the other baby birds out of the nest so it'll get all the food.

I live near a large nature reserve (wetland) in the Netherlands, and we have hundreds of bird species there, including cuckoos. In spring and summer we tend to see lots of people with really big binoculars trying to spot all kinds of birds. It always makes me laugh seeing these people raise the binoculars whenever a cuckoo calls, because when you hear them they could be miles away with how the sound carries in the open space.

Makes sense but it's something I never really thought about before!

Equally important, my dog —who loves birds— is very intrigued by that video.

I'm so fucking glad those birds don't exist in South America. Because this is one of the sounds I hate the most.

When I was a child, my home had a cuckoo clock. Already centennial back then. Noisy and loud. And it made that "cuckoo!" noise once 1AM or 1PM, twice 2AM or 2PM... can you picture the bloody hell that shite was at midnight???

...okay, the birds have no fault for that. But I'm still glad they don't exist here.

Ha, me too, thanks! I had a cuckoo clock in the 90s, just never thought to look up what the actual birds sound like 😂