Was It a Cuckoo?

<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a cuckoo! Stop the car, stop the car &mdash; back up to just before that big dead tree on the side of the road.&rdquo;</p> <p>There, at 6:15 on a bright June morning, winding our way along narrow roads among the hedgerows of central Italy, I saw a large bird, smaller than a crow but bigger than a robin (all the birding books have a sample size chart that runs from sparrow to robin to crow to heron or some other very large bird) mostly gray but with flashes of white, long-bodied and perched upright like a predator on a bare branch, giving it an unobstructed view of skittering rodents or smaller songbirds.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@slaughteram/was-it-a-cuckoo-2481fdd810d6"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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