Cuckoos – which lay their eggs in nests of other birds – have higher speciation rates when they lay their eggs in a broader range of host bird species’ nests, a new study reports. This higher ...

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is ...

Salt on the wind, reeds rustling, and a slim grey shape cutting low over the marsh. Eyewitnesses paused, then reached for ...

The problem of the cuckoo was a step nearer solution last week, with the publication of Cuckoo Problems (H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London), an authoritative treatise on the somewhat wayward habits of ...

Daurian redstarts move closer to humans to protect their nests from brood parasitism. Daurian redstarts move their nesting sites closer to or even inside human settlements when cuckoos are around. In ...

Egg 'signatures' will allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds. African cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed drongo, which scientists predict can ...

While most birds spend their time gathering twigs, leaves and branches to prepare their nests for their young ones, some lazy ...

A small drama has played out above the shingle and reeds, where sharp-eyed walkers have shared whispered messages and phone snaps. For 10 days, a juvenile ...

Some of those pictured are built primarily using dry grass, like that of the spectacled longbill (main picture), the only known research specimen, and the opened-up “ball” nest of the desert cisticola ...