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Cuckoo rice cookers. Cuckoo manufactures small home appliances, notably Korean-style pressure rice cookers.Korean-style cookers (0.8 kg to 0.9 kg cooking pressure) typically gelatinize rice starches more completely than Japanese-style cookers (0.4 kg to 0.6 kg cooking pressure) resulting in a more glutinous and marginally more nutritious cooked rice.
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Cuckoo is a 2024 horror film written and directed by Tilman Singer, and starring Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, and Dan Stevens.A co-production between Germany and the United States, the film follows a teenager (Schafer) who moves to the German Alps to live with her father (Csokas) but becomes disturbed by strange occurrences as her father's boss (Stevens ...
Cuckoo clock, a so-called Jagdstück ("hunt piece"), Black Forest, c. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006-013. A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, not typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close ...
The taxonomy of the common koel complex is difficult and remains a matter of dispute. Some recognize only a single species (common koel, Eudynamys scolopaceus, with melanorhynchus and orientalis as subspecies); some recognize two species (common koel, Eudynamys scolopaceus, with orientalis as a subspecies, and black-billed koel, Eudynamys melanorhynchus); and others recignize three species.
The long-tailed cuckoo breeds only in New Zealand, where it is resident in the warmer months, from early October until February or March, sometimes April and occasionally later. [13] The length of an average one-way journey from New Zealand to Polynesia is around 2500-3500 kilometers [ 14 ] and thus travel over 6000 kilometers. [ 15 ]
The contrasting undertail plumage. Note the red eye-ring, typical of squirrel cuckoos in most of South America Squirrel cuckoo in Costa Rica. This large and extremely long-tailed cuckoo is 40.5–50 cm (15.9–19.7 in) long and weighs 95–120 g (3.4–4.2 oz). [3] The adult has mainly chestnut upperparts and head, becoming paler on the throat.
Comparison of black-billed cuckoo (left) and yellow-billed cuckoo. Adults have a long tail, brown above and black-and-white below, and a black curved bill with yellow especially on the lower mandible. The head and upper parts are brown and the underparts are white. There is a yellow ring around the eye. It shows cinnamon on the wings in flight.