(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Spain has found that at least one species of cuckoo bird may actually help its nest-mates survive. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team ...

When the cuckoo chick hatches, it ejects other eggs or hatchlings to get all the space—and food—for itself. Hungry as a whole brood, the outsize baby devours everything brought by its foster ...

The cuckoo is not only capable of finding its way from unknown locations; it does this through a highly complex individual decision making process. Such skills have never before been documented in ...

In one of the more notorious dick-moves of the animal kingdom, parasitic cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, forcing them to raise the cuckoo chicks as if they were their own. New ...

Some animals bribe, blackmail, and con their way through parenthood, while others starve themselves to death for their young.

British ornithologists tracked cuckoo birds on a migration more than 7,500 miles, spanning southern Africa and East Asia. Mongolian Cuckoos Migrate 7,500 Miles To Southern Africa — One Of The Longest ...

Cuckoo birds aren’t just the inspiration for intricate clocks. They’re also shameless parasites. Brood parasites, that is. Many species of cuckoos have been known to leave their eggs in other birds’ ...

It’s hard to get inside another human’s head – let alone a member of a different species – but that’s where physics and computer models help. Liz Kalaugher reports how researchers are visualizing what ...

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Maybe these finches aren’t so cuckoo after all. The African cuckoo finch is a notorious trickster, short-cutting the chores of parenthood by hiding its eggs in the nest of the African tawny-flanked ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The federal government wants private landowners in arid western states to help identify and designate important habitat for a certain bird species, so the land ...

British ornithologists tracked cuckoo birds migrating more than 7,500 miles across southern Africa and East Asia — one of the longest animal migrations ever recorded. Last summer, a team of ...