Birders have been flocking to Riverhead since Friday morning hoping to catch a glimpse of the rarest bird to be spotted in ...

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

While I’m waiting for the glue to dry, I shall reveal the mystery of this repair-resistant cuckoo clock. It is the property of a nice lady who cannot be held responsible for an antique that hates me ...

There are plenty of birds that are widely referenced in popular culture today, whether as a sports team name or as the origin for an ubiquitous turn of phrase—looking at you, ugly duckling. But few ...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) ─ Rhode Islanders have a new, yet positive, reason to go a little “cuckoo” this year. Hundreds of people have been flocking to Snake Den State Park in Johnston to get a glimpse ...

In the the world’s largest cuckoo clock, found in Triberg, Germany, the cuckoo bird alone is 14 feet long and weighs 330 pounds. The whole thing is based on a much smaller cuckoo clock that is about ...

The country that made the cuckoo bird famous with its clocks is now worried the bird might follow the tragic path of the dodo -- into extinction. Nature and clock preservationists are teaming up and ...