The birders have gone “cuckoo.” A swarm of birders flocked to Long Island after an exceptionally rare cuckoo bird was spotted by a golfer, according to reports. Hundreds of people traveled from dozens ...

The iconic cuckoo faces a new peril on its huge annual migration to the UK - being eaten by humans, according to researchers. The findings come as the first cuckoo to arrive in the UK has been ...

There are certain sounds that haunt the southern highlands. Wind sighing in the high spruce-fir. The ongoing, ever-changing, yet-eternally-the-same murmurs of a creek. And then there are the forlorn ...

In one of the more notorious dick-moves of the animal kingdom, parasitic cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, forcing them to raise the cuckoo chicks as if they were their own. New ...

Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in flight. This is an adult male: Grey morph adult females have a pinkish-buff or buff background to the barring and the sides of the neck, and sometimes small rufous ...

The call of the critically endangered Sumatran ground cuckoo, which was widely believed extinct until a decade ago, has been recorded for the first time, a conservation group has announced. Click ...

It’s hard to get inside another human’s head – let alone a member of a different species – but that’s where physics and computer models help. Liz Kalaugher reports how researchers are visualizing what ...

British ornithologists tracked cuckoo birds migrating more than 7,500 miles across southern Africa and East Asia — one of the longest animal migrations ever recorded. Last summer, a team of ...

For two million years African cuckoo finches have been tricking other birds into raising their young by mimicking the colour of their eggs, but new research suggests the tables may be turning in this ...