The BBC has just screened an adaptation of Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s detective story The Cuckoo’s Calling, and many viewers have been left confused. No spoilers here: but for many watching, ...

THE cuckoo, the emblem of the British countryside, is in real danger of becoming extinct in the UK, scientists have warned. The population of this, the most disreputable parent in the birding world, ...

'Thou mordrer" said Chaucer's merlin to the cuckoo. Well yes, but most of us just take pleasure in the call - that limpid descant at the edge of one's consciousness; the very grace-note of summer. I ...

'Thou mordrer" said Chaucer's merlin to the cuckoo. Well yes, but most of us just take pleasure in the call - that limpid descant at the edge of one's consciousness; the very grace-note of summer. I ...

The cuckoo is also particularly early this year. According to BirdLife Carinthia, the first cuckoo calls were already heard at the end of March. Fortunately, the cuckoo was also earlier this year.

Cuckoos have long been held as masters of disguise, but new research suggests they're even more sneaky than previously thought. Female common cuckoos imitate hawks as to divert host parents’ attention ...

THE call of the cuckoo, the traditional herald of spring, is becoming harder to hear. The cuckoo population has declined sharply, the Woodland Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology said ...