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 ...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) ─ Rhode Islanders have a new, yet positive, reason to go a little “cuckoo” this year. Hundreds of people have been flocking to Snake Den State Park in Johnston to get a glimpse ...

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 ...

JOHNSTON — The common cuckoo is such a rare sight in this part of the world that it doesn’t show up in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s guide to birds in North America. The Audubon Society’s handbook ...

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 — ...

For those sportsmen and naturalists who can hunt with binoculars, the 2017 spring bird migration has been sensational — and a rare cuckoo year. Since April, over a billion, temporary migrants have ...

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 ...

Cuckoos are nest parasites. That means they lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then put the effort into raising the chicks. So you'd think they'd be quiet about it. Yet female cuckoos have a ...