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

Clever birds figure out how to trick others into raising their kids A common Cuckoo chick in Reed Wablers nest waits to be fed with its mouth wide open, in this undated file photo. Getty Images ...

A cuckoo bird. (British Trust for Ornithology via SWNS) By Jack Fifield The iconic cuckoo faces a new peril on its huge annual migration to the UK - being eaten by humans, according to researchers.

PJ, a cuckoo tagged in 2016 in King’s Forest, Suffolk, holds the record for the longest tracked bird by the project, at six years, travelling over 60,000 miles between the east of England, Spain ...