As the German UNESCO Commission reports on its website, while watchmaking has been on a national list since 2021, the ...

The sandstone cliffs surrounding Triberg should have holes in them from which large wooden birds spring each hour, for the town is the heart of Germany’s cuckoo clock industry. Kate Hairsine ...

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 ...

It is one of the most popular souvenirs from Germany: the cuckoo clock. In the Black Forest you can find the largest specimen in the world — as big as a two-story house. This is part five in our ...

If you’ve ever yearned to take a noisy cuckoo clock and hurl it against the wall to silence it forever, then you just might appreciate Nikolai Erngren’s work. His handmade, one-of-a-kind cuckoo clocks ...

Sheri Geisler of Double Oak incorporated her wooden shoe collection into the Christmas decorations this year. A handmade wooden cuckoo clock was handpainted by Geisler's sister. A pair of Pennsylvania ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...

I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...

Genius ideas in cuckoo technology: take the bright yellow, beady-eyed cuckoo bird popping his head in and out every hour on the hour. Replace with the blood-smeared visage of a homicidal Jack ...