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

Birdwatchers across the country are going absolutely cuckoo over a once-in-a-lifetime discovery on Long Island. According to the clip posted below, a golfer named Roy William Gardner stumbled upon an ...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — A rare bird indeed. Birders flocked to Johnston on Monday to catch glimpse of a common cuckoo. The bird is native to Europe and should be migrating to Africa for the winter.

A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.