| 1. | The family Cuculidae includes cuckoos, coucals, roadrunners and anis.
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| 2. | Immature " Haemaphysalis " ticks have been found feeding on greater coucals.
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| 3. | The Greater coucal is the national bird of the proposed state of Tamil Eelam.
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| 4. | This species is somewhat smaller and less contrasted than the more widespread greater coucal.
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| 5. | The Senegal coucal takes a wide range of insects, caterpillars and small vertebrates.
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| 6. | Predators of the eggs and young include the Indian jungle crow and the greater coucal.
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| 7. | On 15 September 1977, " Coucal " was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor.
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| 8. | The pheasant coucal's summer voice is a low descending'boop boop boop '.
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| 9. | Eggs and chicks may be preyed on by the greater coucal, " Calotes versicolor ", and crows.
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| 10. | Coucals generally make nests inside dense vegetation and they usually have the top covered but some species have the top open.
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