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 ...

Christina spends a lot of her time in Panama, where she studies another species of cuckoo called the greater ani. This bird has a different reproductive strategy. So, I called her up to find out more.

Recently, staff at the Xinfengjiang Forestry Administration of Guangdong Province recorded the first sighting of the rare Emerald Cuckoo at Jiuli Lake, a demonstration site in a pr ...

Only about 1 percent of all bird species resort to this sneaky family planning method, called obligate brood parasitism, but it has evolved at least seven separate times in the history of birds ...

Passerine bird takes advantage of human settlements. ... This strategy is called brood parasitism and takes a heavy toll on the exploited species. The female cuckoo usually removes one or more host ...

Vivarium (2022) and Cuckoo (2024) also draw their inspiration from brood parasitism. Gizmodo: What are your own thoughts on the cuckoo’s horror-inspiring breeding strategy?

cuckoo bird; News on cuckoo bird. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. Rank. Last day 1 week 1 month all. LiveRank. ... In doing so, they actively protect their nest against brood parasitism, ...

Some birds, however, including the common cuckoo, simply lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. Continue reading to learn more about this fascinating bird. Taxonomy ...

The Estonian Ornithological Society has been selecting the bird of the year since 1995, and the cuckoo is the 30th. The Bird of the Year initiative's purpose is to educate the public about a bird ...