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 ...

Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in flight. This is an adult male: Grey morph adult females have a pinkish-buff or buff background to the barring and the sides of the neck, and sometimes small rufous ...

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"At first I thought it was a Yellow Billed Cuckoo but its belly was not white," Allie, who spotted 21 species at the nature preserve, reported on eBird. "It was buff/orangey. Also had black mask ...