A George Mason University (GMU) biologist proposed an alternate theory of how the common cuckoo bird mimics other birds’ egg ...

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 — ...

Tillman Singer’s Cuckoo, which stars Hunter Schafer in her first lead role, is inspired by the invasive behavior of the bird itself. The film is currently at the Berlin Film Festival, where the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 of states to Vineyards Golf and ...

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 ...

A migrant bird that winters in South America and summers in the American West is bound for extinction, according to a federal agency, which is seeking comments on a proposed endangered listing for the ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The federal government wants private landowners in arid western states to help identify and designate important habitat for a certain bird species, so the land ...