In her new book about cuckoos, Cynthia Chris details the extensive history of everyone's favorite feathery brood parasite.

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 ...

The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) takes another tack — it has evolved to mimic the look of a predatory raptor, prompting host mothers to fly off in fear and leave their nest unattended.

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 ...

Winter is a crucial period for migratory birds, especially in central and southern Maharashtra which includes the forests of ...

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 ...

"The louder the cuckoo got, the more we knew the robin would come back and eventually it did," she said. Cuckoos are more common in the Republic of Ireland, but are on a conservation red list in ...

Every time they turn their backs, the cuckoo hatchling shoves another of ... It is increasingly common to cast science as a spoilsport, reducing the poetry of the world to an equation, love ...

For a decade, one writer tried to unravel the story of Dorje Chang, whose artwork sold for millions and who claimed to be the ...

Rather than a touch screen, which is common on other pressure cookers ... stuck-on food and sanitize the inner pot. I tested the Cuckoo multi cooker making a pureed butternut squash soup.

The cuckoo was once a common species from Lake Washington in Seattle to the San Pedro River in southern Arizona and countless places in between. Today, with the loss of gallery riparian forests to ...