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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...