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 ...

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 ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

We're quite fond of bizarre gadgets that hook into Twitter, whether they be tweeting tables, monomes or robot fish, and so we're quite surprised that it's taken someone so long to use the blue Twitter ...

SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...

This isn’t a real product but wouldn’t it be great if it were? I’d be able to hear a delightful cuckoo sound emanating from my girlish wrists, every hour spent along staring at my computer screen ...