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

A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.

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 ...

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 ...

SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...

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 ...