That nest usually belongs to a much smaller bird, a warbler or pipit, for example, who happens to have eggs of a similar color to that of the cuckoo. The host birds will incubate the egg as if it ...

Home; Nature; The terrible truth about the cuckoo, and the 'monstrous outrages' it perpetrates on its foster parents and siblings. The cuckoo is a bird whose behaviour is so horrendous — when judged ...

If you’re one of the many people hiking though Alabama’s forests this summer, you may want to look for the yellow-billed cuckoo. Good luck. Yellow-billed cuckoos tend to hide, high up in the ...

Though the birds are known for their distinctive yellow beaks, you might see them in a tree by spotting their long gray tail with white spots on the bottom, or their gray wings tinged with red.