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 ...

Generally shy and elusive, the yellow-billed cuckoo can be easily overlooked. Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird. It favors eating caterpillars ...

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 ...

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 ...

Little Swamp Sanctuary may have a depth of water ranging from two to eight feet in the spring, but shrink to areas of dark muck soil along the edges and a lower water table in the dry parts of the ...

The name "cuckoo" tends to bring forth images of some exotic bird from faraway lands or the old-fashioned clock that announces the time with the appearance of a carved wooden bird. There are also ...

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 ...

A yellow-billed cuckoo. Yep, that’s it’s real name. A cuckoo! If you look closely you can see the yellow at the base of the bill. They are slender, long-tailed birds with a white belly and white spots ...

DENVER (CN) — The Friends of Animals claims in federal court that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to designate critical habitat for the Western distinct ...

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 ...