Taylor Long (left), field trip leader with the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society, hears the sound of a yellow-billed cuckoo Saturday during an Audubon field trip at Mill Branch Park in Goshen. Thirty ...

Say 'cuckoo' and a finch-sized bird popping out of a wooden clock every hour probably comes to mind. But, at between 58 and 65 cm tall, with a piercing stare, channel-billed cuckoos are the world's ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo is sometimes called the "rain crow" because its song is often heard just before thunderstorms or summer showers. But this rare bird raises its voice less and less often in ...

You are more likely to have heard the Channel-billed cuckoo than you have seen one, with its persistent, grating squawks serving as an unwanted midnight alarm for many Aussies throughout spring. The ...