New research shows that cuckoos have striped or "barred" feathers that resemble local birds of prey, such as sparrowhawks, that may be used to frighten birds into briefly fleeing their nest in order ...

If you’re a bird and you’re trying to be taken seriously, it can’t be easy to be a cuckoo. In an animal grouping that includes the golden eagle, the sharp-shinned hawk and the great crested heron, ...

Hosts of brood parasites defend their nests against parasitism by aggression and subsequently, if parasitized, by rejection of the parasite egg or nestling. Cuckoos have evolved plumage mimicry with ...

DURING the spring of 1948 George Edwards, Eric Hosking and stuart Smith carried out experiments to test the reactions of certain of the smaller birds to presence of stuffed cuckoo and other animals in ...

Several species of cuckoos become active during this time, including the grey-bellied vuckoo, common hawk cuckoo, Indian cuckoo, fork-tailed drongo, and banded bay cuckoo. Hyderabad: As the monsoon ...