While I’m waiting for the glue to dry, I shall reveal the mystery of this repair-resistant cuckoo clock. It is the property of a nice lady who cannot be held responsible for an antique that ...

My 25-year-old cuckoo clock hung on the dining room wall silent for ... from one box and “koo” from the second box – similar to the mechanism of a flute. As the cuckoo bird is pushed out of the door ...

the mechanisms in some are superb and some are cuckoo and quail clocks — the cuckoo does the hour, and the quail does the quarters.” A clockwork bird that would move and sing, generated by a ...

There are plenty of birds that are widely referenced in popular culture today, whether as a sports team name or as the origin for an ubiquitous turn of phrase—looking at you, ugly duckling.

In the the world’s largest cuckoo clock, found in Triberg, Germany, the cuckoo bird alone is 14 feet long and weighs 330 pounds. The whole thing is based on a much smaller cuckoo clock that i ...