Cuckoo

Everyone knows cuckoos well. And if someone did not see with their own eyes (it is not so easy to see a cuckoo), then they heard, visiting the forest in spring or early summer. It is enough to hear the voice of a cuckoo once to immediately understand why she was given such a name. And so the bird is called not only in Russian. The Germans call this bird "cuckoo". The French are "cucu". In Romania it is called "cook". In Italy - "puppet". In Spanish, her name is "cuco", and in Turkish - "googuk". Almost all peoples have many legends associated with the cuckoo. One of the most common says that a woman ruined her husband, God, as punishment, turned her into a bird that was never destined to have a family. Since then, the cuckoo has been crying bitterly. Her tears turn into grass, the so-called cuckoo tears, and a sad voice is heard far away. Compassionate people believed in this legend, called the bird "poor widow", "hapless cuckoo". And they did not know that they heard not crying, but a spring song, and not "widows", but a male!