Yes, there really is such a thing as a yellow-billed cuckoo and that’s the bird you just might be seeing in your treetops. Somehow yellow-billed cuckoos know when tent caterpillars and other hairy ...

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 ...

Federal wildlife officials facing pressure from members of Congress on Tuesday delayed action on their proposal to designate nearly 550,000 acres in nine states, including parts of Colorado, as ...

A bird that made a big impression on me this year was a young yellow-billed cuckoo making what may have been its first long flight since leaving its nest. Just a few hours or maybe a day after ...

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 ...

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 rare yellow-billed cuckoo is a shy, slender, long-tailed bird that migrates from Central America in spring to breed in streamside forests that once thrived throughout Southern California. And that ...