Kudos Cuckoo Poem by Indira Renganathan
Kudos Cuckoo
Even the acerbic neem becomes honey
When your doubled, tripled coos-symphony
On the margosa
Gets contrived a harmonica
'Bitter turned into sweeter'
Does say the crow
Pecking up the neem fruits
Up the tree flies like an arrow
To incubate your eggs
'Better do it faster'
So you utter
Knowing the reason sweeter
You coo coo and cuckooo
Your coos much we ooh
'Clappers we the listeners'
Down you then find us
Hap hap happily flapping wings
You watch your babes hatchedsafely
You coo coo cuckooo....Kudos, kudos
Down you then find us Hap hap happily flapping wings Safely then out your babes You coo coo cuckooo....Kudos, kudos.......touching expression. So interesting to read. A beautiful poem is amazingly shared. thanks for sharing.
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4/19/2024 4:57:28 PM # 1.0.0.1119
A lovely poem on Cuckoo, the nightingale. As to this lore of she laying her eggs in crow's nest... I wonder if it is merely a poetic imagination. For, I feel crow is immensely intelligent.
Thank you Aniruddha for your comment..this is the answer taken from the internet..In Tamil Nadu this is a well known talked about fact.
All of this behaviour has no relation to laziness, negativity or evil. Neither can one compare the behaviour of the host parent to love, generosity, positive or good. It is simply survival of the fittest and instincts.
Instinctively, the Cuckoo baby (which is much larger than the eggs/hatch-lings of the host parent bird) chirp almost continuously, driving their host parents to feed them protein rich (non-vegetarian) food with much more urgency and volume. The hatch-lings also destroy the eggs and/or hatchlings of its host parent to maximise the attention it can get from the host parent.
The Cuckoo is mainly a Frugivorous creature. Which means that the diet of Cuckoos mostly comprises of Fruits. Baby birds require huge amounts of protein rich diet to grow quickly and healthily. A female Cuckoo lays it’s eggs (in a hurry) in the nests of other birds like Crows, Drongos and sometimes even much smaller birds like Bee Eaters. To do this, the mother Cuckoo destroys one or two eggs of the host parent bird and replaces it with her egg.