Pied Cuckoo*
*aka Jacobin Cuckoo or
Black and White Cuckoo
Is found in Sub-Saharan Africa and
south Asia, especially in India.
Clamator jacobinus*
(L 13")
In Switzerland they had brotherly love,
five hundred years of democracy and
peace, and what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock!
  (Simone Weil)
Lake Bogoria
29Oct2014
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Clamator in Latin means
shouter; jacobinus is after
Dominican friars or Jacobins
...who work in a black cloak.