Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about birds inspired by their calls, songs and behaviour.

Generally shy and elusive, the yellow-billed cuckoo can be easily overlooked. Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird. It favors eating ...

For example, a song with a heavy metal title is really elevator music, or, after a few seconds of the original music, random noise, speech or even cuckoo clock sounds are heard until the end of ...

Listen to the songs and calls of the most common garden birds in the UK and get tips on how to learn to recognise these familiar sounds. Bird song is probably the most familiar type of bird sound.

The title actually refers to the cuckoo bird, whose real-life antics are far ... Stevens’s performance a huge amount of praise; it sounds as if he’s being choked by the first syllable of ...

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 ...

To celebrate the beginning of spring in the Gaelic calendar, ornithologist Seán Ronayne is across the schedule on RTÉ lyric fm with a new series to discuss the distinct bird songs, melodies and ...