But the seed-eating birds shouldn't be affected, and their nests and the cuckoo eggs in them can get through the caterpillar drought just fine. "By laying eggs in the nests of several species ...

and the brood parasite known as the cuckoo has used evolution to do the same thing. Because cuckoos lay their eggs in the ...

The parents that inhabit the nest may mob the cuckoo mom, preventing her from dropping ... s an avid wildlife photographer, observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she lives.

The multiple open-cup nests (pictured below) are the work of many different birds, but have all been commandeered by the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed this week to add the Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee to the federal list, which would ...

They say birds of a feather flock together, but what are the chances of a robin and cuckoo sharing a bit of lunch? Well, County Donegal woman Maureen Carr captured the moment a red-breasted bird ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo is sometimes called the "rain crow" because its song is often heard just before thunderstorms or summer showers. But this rare bird raises its voice less and less often in ...

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In the 1962 novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Chief Bromden soliloquizes those thoughts as a patient of a state mental hospital, helping to explain to readers how archaic psychiatric ...

Bronze-cuckoo chicks ... of cuckoos laying their eggs in the nests of small songbirds. Some bronze-cuckoos had evolved to look more like host birds to escape detection. The study involved an ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo is sometimes called the "rain crow" because its song is often heard just before thunderstorms or summer showers. But this rare bird raises its voice less and less often in ...