The cuckoo bird is also a cultural symbol, appearing in legends and songs, as well as in books and plays. In Europe, hearing the call of a cuckoo is a sign that spring is fast approaching.

I set the movement up on my test stand and found that neither the cuckoo nor the music would work. I fixed the cuckoo, but it took me a frantic week to finally discover that there was a bent tooth ...

But instead of testing the birds' reactions to real cuckoo eggs, the team found abandoned blackcap eggs, introducing them as impostors to successful blackcap clutches.

The larger, speckled cuckoo egg looks similar in colour and pattern to the surrounding marsh warbler eggs. (Image credit: Getty) There are 150 species of cuckoos listed in the IOC World Bird List ...

Why some cuckoos lay blue eggs Cuckoos are nest parasites, meaning they lay their eggs in other birds' nests. The female cuckoo has to lay eggs that mimic the color, size and shape of the eggs of ...

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 ...

A cuckoo bird named PJ just broke an impressive record: He traveled more than 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers) in the past five years while migrating to and from the U.K.

People are going ‘cuckoo’ for a rare bird in Rhode Island by: T.J. Del Santo Posted: Nov 9, 2020 / 04:13 PM EST Updated: Nov 9, 2020 / 06:33 PM EST ...