Editing Common cuckoo (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
Essentially a bird of open land, the common cuckoo is a widespread summer [[bird migration|migrant]] to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. Birds arrive in Europe in April and leave in September.<ref name="collins"/> The common cuckoo has also occurred as a vagrant in countries including [[Barbados]], the United States, [[Greenland]], the [[Faroe Island]]s, [[Iceland]], [[Indonesia]], [[Palau]], [[Seychelles]], [[Taiwan]] and China.<ref name=IUCN/> Between 1995 and 2015, the distribution of cuckoos within the UK has shifted towards the north, with a decline by 69% in England but an increase by 33% in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Denerley|first1=Chloe|last2=Redpath|first2=Steve M.|last3=Wal|first3=Rene van der|last4=Newson|first4=Stuart E.|last5=Chapman|first5=Jason W.|last6=Wilson|first6=Jeremy D.|date=2019|title=Breeding ground correlates of the distribution and decline of the Common Cuckoo ''Cuculus canorus'' at two spatial scales |journal=Ibis |volume=161|issue=2|pages=346–358|doi=10.1111/ibi.12612|issn=1474-919X|url=https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/10871/37563/2/Denerley%20et%20al%202018_Ibis_Cuckoo%20declines%20%28Accepted%20version%29.pdf|hdl=10871/37563|s2cid=91171632|hdl-access=free}}</ref>