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The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Sunday, February 23, for a staff training exercise. Normal hours will resume when the Folger opens on Tuesday, February 25, at 11:00am.

Common cuckoo

Common cuckoo

Fauna: 2 Adult cuckoos (male and female), 1 cuckoo chick in a reed warbler nest, 1 dunnock, 1 redstart, 1 reed warbler

Flora: Almond tree, buttercup, cherry tree, cuckoo flower, daffodil, iris, reeds

Objects: The cuckoo’s call written in music notes, 3 cuckoo eggs, 7 cuckoo feathers, tree stump

Plants mentioned by Shakespeare: Almond (Prunus amygdalus), cuckoo flower (buttercup) (Ranunculus acris), daffodil (Narcissus hispanicus and Narcissus tazetta), iris (Iris germanica), reed (Phragmites australis)

Common cuckoo