The female cuckoo will incubate her egg inside her body for a day before laying it in another bird’s nest. This ensures that the common cuckoo chick hatches first, monopolizing food and the host ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains minor spoilers for “Cuckoo,” now playing in theaters. Roughly 40% of cuckoo bird species are “brood parasites.” Instead of building its own nest, the ...

That nest usually belongs to a much smaller bird, a warbler or pipit, for example, who happens to have eggs of a similar color to that of the cuckoo. The host birds will incubate the egg as if it ...

I set the movement up on my test stand and found that neither the cuckoo nor the music would work. I fixed the cuckoo, but it took me a frantic week to finally discover that there was a bent tooth ...

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 ...

Like the cuckoo bird, this bumblebee can’t rear its own young; instead, it lays its eggs among a host species’ hive and forces the workers to raise them. Without a host, the Ashton is doomed.