Reed Warblers operate a ‘neighbourhood watch’ system to alert fellow birds to the threat of cuckoos. Cuckoos are one of the biggest threats to reed warblers because they secretly lay their own eggs in ...

A common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) female lays her egg in the nest of another bird, and after it hatches, the cuckoo chick typically pushes out the host bird’s own eggs. But now, communities of reed ...

It's a risky business being a reed warbler. Not only do these tiny birds embark on an annual migration of some 5,000 km from their West African winter quarters to breeding grounds in the north, but ...

Inexperienced reed warblers can learn how to stop cuckoos from laying eggs in their nests by watching how other members of their species deal with the parasitic birds, a new study shows. The findings ...

As I walk around my local patch on a fine May morning, an orchestra of rhythmic, scratchy sounds assails my ears: the songs of more than two dozen reed warblers. Not that I see them very often. Reed ...

Researchers recently showed that migratory reed warblers depend on an internal geomagnetic map to guide them on their long-distance journeys. But it wasn't clear how the birds were solving the ...

Ornithologists across the world are celebrating with the news that a wetland bird that has eluded scientists ever since its discovery in India in 1867 has been refound. Twice. The Large-billed ...

The reed warbler has a number of attributes, including agility and a distinctive singing voice. Intelligence clearly isn’t on the list. Indeed, this one proved spectacularly birdbrained when she ...

• This bird is named after Basra, the capital city of the Basra Province in Iraq, also Iraq’s principal port city. As the name suggests this has historically been one of the few places in the world ...

A study of reed warbler behavior reveals for the first time that in assessing the risks posed by cuckoos the birds combine information from multiple sources. An 'information highway' provides one set ...