Cuckoo, The

Cuckoo, The is a short film from 1920 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

art cards;

about the cuckoo bird; [the cuckoo deposits its own eggs in the nests of other birds so that they may raise them, and also steals the other birds' eggs and eats them] Card reads: The Feathered Wrecker of Homes To spy on the secret life of the cuckoo, ornithologists carry blind which looks like a haystack. Then the head guy opens it up like a box and climbs in. ornithologists scamper in the fields hand holding cuckoo's eggs; parent birds over baby birds in nest the baby cuckoo knocks unhatched eggs out of the nest; he also ejects the baby titlarks from their nest; bird continually snaps at a nearby human hand;

a small bird sits atop a larger bird;

Cuckoo, The
Produced by	Bray Studios, Inc.
Production companies	Bray Studios, Inc.
Distributed by	Bray Studios, Inc.
Release date	1920
Language	English

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