But the cuckoo is not alone: the number of species on the Red List - used to highlight those birds most in need of urgent conservation measures - has grown by almost a third since 2002.

My hunt for interesting lesser ground-cuckoo facts led me to a journal article published by Alexander F. Skutch in 1966. In it, he describes how he found a lesser ground-cuckoo nest and wanted to see ...

A rare sighting of a Lesser Cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) has been reported from Mangaon in Raigad district, on Saturday. The Lesser cuckoo is difficult to identify as it is often confused with ...