To someone watching birds casually, the cuckoo’s behaviour looks almost lazy. Instead of gathering twigs, lining a nest, and ...

Cuckoos – which lay their eggs in nests of other birds – have higher speciation rates when they lay their eggs in a broader range of host bird species’ nests, a new study reports. This higher ...

Clever birds figure out how to trick others into raising their kids A common Cuckoo chick in Reed Wablers nest waits to be fed with its mouth wide open, in this undated file photo. Getty Images — ...

Egg 'signatures' will allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds. African cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed drongo, which scientists predict can ...

The problem of the cuckoo was a step nearer solution last week, with the publication of Cuckoo Problems (H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London), an authoritative treatise on the somewhat wayward habits of ...

Local artist Mitra Cline invites the community to join a unique art show that combines traditional crafts and digital art at Cypress Gallery. The show, called “Cuckoo’s Mixed Reality Nest,” is ...

Some of those pictured are built primarily using dry grass, like that of the spectacled longbill (main picture), the only known research specimen, and the opened-up “ball” nest of the desert cisticola ...