This story is from May 30, 2022 Bird-watchers’ cuckoo clock strikes the monsoon early VIKRAM JIT SINGH / May 30, 2022, 03:21 IST Follow us ...

There are more stats on the clock’s website. The pendulum, for example, is 26 feet long and weighs 220 pounds. But this isn’t the only cuckoo clock that has claimed the “world’s largest ...

It was to be a birthday present and thus time-sensitive. I replaced the two tiny bellows that blow air through the cuckoo whistles, cleaned and oiled the movement, and put the clock up on a test nail.

The country that made the cuckoo bird famous with its clocks is now worried the bird might follow the tragic path of the dodo -- into extinction. Nature and clock preservationists are teaming up ...