These children – potential parasites - flourish under the very love and care that their families give them. Who are these children? And what do they want? The Midwich Cuckoos is an unnerving fable for ...
Cuckoos are more common in the Republic of Ireland, but are on a conservation red list in the UK, where there are thought to be just 18,000 pairs, according to the Royal Society for the Protection ...
Bronze-cuckoo chicks, like the one on the right, have evolved to look more like their host birds Cuckoos are known for tricking rival birds into looking after their young and new evidence suggests ...
“S umer is icumem in,/Lhude sing cuccu ” – or “Summer is here,/Loudly sing, cuckoo” – are the opening lines of a much-anthologised medieval poem-song. Well, summer is just about done now and we’ve had ...