As the title suggests, the species has a lot in common with the "common cuckoo." König is a passionate ornithologist and a ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the care and feeding of its offspring, the common cuckoo outsources. When she’s ready to lay an egg, a female ...

It has been, say scientists, "a mammoth journey". The satellite-tagged common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), named Onon after a Mongolian river, set off from its winter home in Zambia on 20 March.

Some calls, however, are quite similar. Common in eastern North America, the yellow-billed cuckoo is becoming increasingly rare and local in much of the West. It breeds in open woodlands with ...

The Common Hawk Cuckoo is another bird which arrives from southern states to Bhopal. It doesn't build its own nest and lays ...

The cuckoo was once common in states like Illinois, Kansas and Florida where it could be found in open grasslands and meadows. Although it was found mainly in the eastern United States, it was ...

‘Big days’ have long been an established part of the birding calendar. During a big day, small teams of birders record as ...

Some are close in appearance to the sparrowhawk and have similar flight characteristics, and to the unpractised or uninterested eye, a cuckoo might be mistaken for a pigeon. Even for hardcore birders, ...

Then a camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nearby started to play. First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered ...

It might have gone down in history as one of his most famous performances, but Jack Nicholson accounted for 50% of the people who knew why.

These 37 creative, no-carve pumpkin decorating ideas use paint, fabric, and other craft supplies to make your pumpkin for ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned for Endangered Species Act protection today for the critically imperiled Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee, which has declined by more than 90%. The rare ...