A common cuckoo — which is anything but common in the United States — appeared for a few days, then vanished. Interest from ...

Normally we hog all the rare birds here on the Cape, but the greater Scituate to Duxbury area is eating our lunch this fall, especially with tropical wetland birds. For some reason Limpkins, mainly ...

The sighting turned out to be a white whale-level discovery. Tucker found a European common cuckoo, a bird never before recorded in New Hampshire that rarely makes its way to the United States, ...

British ornithologists tracked cuckoo birds on a migration more than 7,500 miles, spanning southern Africa and East Asia. Mongolian Cuckoos Migrate 7,500 Miles To Southern Africa — One Of The Longest ...

When danger approaches, many creatures seem to follow the ancient proverb that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” For ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madras Naturalists Society members and school-going children from Chennai, Amoggh Vjay Chatty and Aaditya S Rajesh spot and ...

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 ...

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. To better understand why ...

LONDON -- Britain's cuckoo bird, known for its distinctive call, is in danger of extinction along with 51 other species, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said in a new report Thursday. It ...