Clever birds figure out how to trick others into raising their kids A common Cuckoo chick in Reed Wablers nest waits to be fed with its mouth wide open, in this undated file photo. Getty Images — ...

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most famous nest hijacker in the bird world, the common cuckoo has even given rise to the phrase “cuckooing.” A female cuckoo carefully watches her host bird, usually small songbirds like ...

No list rounding up the best movies of the 20th century would be complete without One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In celebration of the film's 50th anniversary, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is ...