Sentences with phrase «ground cuckoo»

The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig - like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry

The paisano, as he is affectionately known, is a kind of ground cuckoo.

Typical bird species of the wetland Pacific of Nicaragua are black - crab hawks, roseate spoonbill, boatbill herons, great herons, egrets, pacific parakeets and parrots, hummingbirds, motmots, trogons, lesser ground cuckoos.

Not exact matches

Neomorphus ground - cuckoos in Central and South America seem to mimic the sounds made by the pig - like peccaries they live alongside, perhaps to ward off predators.

The film assembled one of the studio's finest voice casts, led by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, gave them a ton of great gags and memorable characters (the surfer dude turtle and the «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» homage in the dentist's office first among them), and then grounded it in with a deep bass line of thoroughly relatable pathos.

Edifice upon edifice the costly ivory tower, higher and higher above the ground into cloud cuckoo land and then...