There are certain sounds that haunt the southern highlands. Wind sighing in the high spruce-fir. The ongoing, ever-changing, yet-eternally-the-same murmurs of a creek. And then there are the forlorn ...

The parents of a childhood friend had a cuckoo clock. I was at her house for a sleepover and didn’t pay it much attention. But that night, I had a nightmare in which the cuckoo was singing and pecking ...

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 ...

During a visit the other morning to the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve near my home on the outskirts of Decatur, I got my best view ever of a yellow-billed cuckoo, one of Georgia’s most elusive — and ...

FIGHT COMING OVER YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO: “The yellow-billed cuckoo is known for its distinctive call — a drawn-out knocking sound — but the sound lawmakers will likely hear more of when they return to ...

A yellow-billed cuckoo was heard in Durham on July 16 and included in New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for July 18.Hard to see, as it perches in deciduous trees and dines on large caterpillars, ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo can be found in wooded areas near creeks or bayous.Kathy Adams Clark Yellow-billed cuckoo have a hunchbacked profile with ruddy on the wings. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark.

Alex Nees headed a crew that hunted the cottonwood canopy along the Colorado River through Grand Junction late this summer, searching out whether the banks of the Colorado River might host the kind of ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — The yellow-billed cuckoo has been disappearing from its home in the Western U.S., a decline that prompted the federal Fish and Wildlife Service to announce Thursday that the bird has ...

In my last column, I wrote about the impending eruption of Brood X 17-year cicadas. They’re in full cacophonous swing now. If you live in an emergence area, you know. Depending on one’s outlook, the ...

The western yellow-billed cuckoo was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act Arizona has the largest population of the bird%2C which lives near streams and rivers The cuckoo is ...