<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Range of Cuculus canorus Deep purple: Summer range (Breeding) Pink: Winter range (Nonbreeding) </Td> </Tr> <P> The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals . </P> <P> This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa . It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers . Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs . The adult too is a mimic, in its case of the sparrowhawk; since that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so . </P> <P> The species' binomial name is derived from the Latin cuculus (the cuckoo) and canorus (melodious; from canere, meaning to sing). The cuckoo family gets its common name and genus name by onomatopoeia for the call of the male common cuckoo . The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English . </P>

Where does the cuckoo bird lay its eggs