Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens has gone cuckoo. The Sanford attraction has added five female Guira cuckoos to its South American Bird Habitat. They have joined two violaceous turacos and a ...

Cuckoos – which lay their eggs in nests of other birds – have higher speciation rates when they lay their eggs in a broader range of host bird species’ nests, a new study reports. This higher ...

The Mangrove Cuckoo is among the most secretive and poorly known North American birds, according to the American Bird Conservancy. Within the United States, this tropical bird can be found only in ...

There are plenty of birds that are widely referenced in popular culture today, whether as a sports team name or as the origin for an ubiquitous turn of phrase—looking at you, ugly duckling. But few ...

Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in flight. This is an adult male: Grey morph adult females have a pinkish-buff or buff background to the barring and the sides of the neck, and sometimes small rufous ...

This photo provided by Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows a Common Cuckoo on Oct. 24, 2025 in Woods at Cherry Creek Suffolk, N.Y. (Jay McGowan/Cornell Lab of Ornithology via AP) This photo provided by ...