You gotta love Cuckoos. Not just the Common Cuckoo or the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, you must love the whole family Cuculidae, all 32 general and...

I watch birds pretty much all the time. This may come as a surprise to folks who keep their birding casual, or who limit...

Birders from North America who have tried to find Mangrove Cuckoos in south Florida know how frustratingly elusive the secretive species can be. They...

Last Sunday, in between taking pictures of Butterbutts, I was walking through some rather tall weeds at Jacob Riis Park when a Yellow-billed Cuckoo flushed,...

That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect. And...

While I sometimes complain about the lack of variety of birds in New Zealand, there are at least some birds here that are a)...

Over the past few months we have had a variety of Cuckoos calling and looking for a mate and the sound of any Cuckoo...

Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder. They packed up in June of 2013 and headed...