During the last 25 years the number of breeding Common Cuckoos Cuculus canorus in the UK has dropped by two-thirds. Could climate-induced changes that allow birds like the Dunnock Prunella modularis and the Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis to nest up to a week earlier than they did in 1994 mean that the Cuckoo is arriving back in the UK too late to lay eggs in their nests? The latest research from...

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