Columnist, who first laid eyes on cuckoo at 12 years old, describes bird's fascinating diet, sound, and hunting pattern ...

Cuckoo birds present a useful system for studying coevolutionary diversification. In some species, cuckoo chicks kick the host young from the nest, whereas in others, cuckoo birds are reared ...

When the cuckoo chicks hatch they are looked after by the host birds that originally build the nest and, scientists have observed, they grow so fast and demand so much food from the ‘foster ...