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Oriental cuckoo, a Common card
The Oriental cuckoo or Horsfield's cuckoo is a bird belonging to the genus Cuculus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,600
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Oriental cuckoo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oriental cuckoo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Differences in voice and size suggest that it should be treated as a ______ species.
Answer
separate. Differences in voice and size suggest that it should be treated as a separate species. From the Oriental cuckoo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Crenicichla. Crenicichla 58 · Oriental cuckoo 54 · Syrphus ribesii 48 · Cherax pulcher 45 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Syrphus ribesii. Syrphus ribesii 7,900 · Adriatic Highway 6,300 · Oriental cuckoo 4,600 · Crenicichla 3,200 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was formerly classified as a subspecies of the Himalayan cuckoo, with the name 'Oriental cuckoo' used for the combined species.
- Differences in voice and size suggest that it should be treated as a separate species.
- The binomial name Cuculus horsfieldi has often been used instead of Cuculus optatus, but is now usually considered to be a junior synonym.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oriental cuckoo article was read about 4,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Oriental cuckoo
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oriental cuckoo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aviceda, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
