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 ...

Sometimes a bird species’ very survival depends on ... strange egg or desert the nest to start afresh. In Japan, the common cuckoo recently switched to a new, unsuspecting host on which to ...

Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird ... are quite similar. Common in eastern North America, the yellow-billed cuckoo is becoming increasingly ...

Mysterious, elusive, and full of surprises, this bird's behaviour will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew ...

Historically the cuckoo was common from the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle to the mouth of the Colorado River. The cuckoo is a visually striking bird whose long tail has flashy white markings.

But this rare bird raises its voice less and less often in western North America, where it has been eradicated from most of its riparian habitat. The cuckoo was once a common species from Lake ...