In traditional cuckoo clocks, the “coo coo” sound is derived from a system of bellows pushing air through two wooden whistles to recreate the distinctive two-note call of the common cuckoo.

asked Colman Curran, a retired lawyer turned horologist, as he delicately attached a pair of hand-carved bone hands (“probably cow or horse”) to the dial of a wooden cuckoo clock. In January ...

Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. “Personally, I’m in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks.” Contact us at [email protected] ...

Cuckoo's clocks are unable to keep up with climate change, new research warns. The birds spend the winter in central Africa, before travelling north to western Europe to herald the arrival of spring.