Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the University of Melbourne. It found that host songbirds, instead of accepting a cuckoo chick, have evolved to recognise odd-looking nestlings and ...

If magpies told ghost stories, it would be about the channel-billed cuckoo. If one of these pterodactyl-like birds has a magpie’s nest in their sights, it’s game over.

If magpies told ghost stories, it would be about the channel-billed cuckoo. If one of these pterodactyl-like birds has a magpie’s nest in their sights, it’s game over.