Most birds spend hours, days, or even weeks painstakingly building their nests. Some birds make nests out of mud, some build nests in trees, and some birds nest on the ground and simply scrape out a ...

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 ...

A George Mason University (GMU) biologist proposed an alternate theory of how the common cuckoo bird mimics other birds’ egg colorings at a biology department seminar Jan. 15. Hanley said cuckoos are ...

Birds of different species can understand each other’s alarm calls warning of cuckoos. Brood parasites such as cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, tricking the hosts into caring for their ...

Coots, the Rodney Dangerfields of the bird world, just might start to get some respect as a result of a new study showing that these common marsh birds are able to recognize and count their own eggs, ...