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That European cuckoo is the bird of the cuckoo clock with its "kuck'-oo" call. It is also the bird from which the word cuckold is derived for it is parasitic, like our cowbird laying its eggs in ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food.

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food. While it awaits a ...

Famously, common cuckoo birds (the kind you might see immortalized on a clock) lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, forcing other birds to raise their young.

Mike Venables said he had heard the cuckoo calling at Stanford Bishop, close to Woodend Coppice, on May 9, just after 6am. He then heard one again on May 11 at 8.10pm. The sound of a cuckoo was also ...

Rare bird saved from extinction spotted in Herefordshire The song of a cuckoo resembles its name 'cuck-oo' and can often be heard in woodland and grassland habitats.

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 ...

The iconic cuckoo faces a new peril on its huge annual migration to the UK - being eaten by humans, according to researchers. The findings come as the first cuckoo to arrive in the UK has been ...

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.