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 ...

Many years ago Mary Alice, our daughter Holly and I went to Belgium to meet our first grandchild. We spent a month with the ...

Grandma called it a rain crow because to her, at least, its monotonous, guttural monotone "cloke-cloke-cloke-cloke" meant approaching rain. I thought of her on a recent morning as the yellow-billed ...

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 ...

The Western yellow-billed cuckoo is an occasional, hard-to-spot visitor to the Grand Valley. So difficult to spot, in fact, that many sightings of the bird aren't sightings at all, but rather ...

The elusive bird is usually found near riverbeds and streams, but a new study says it was recently discovered living in arid Arizona mountains. The threatened yellow-billed cuckoo in the West has been ...

PHOENIX — Petrified Forest National Park announced the sightings of Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a threatened bird along the Puerco River within the park. One individual bird was heard on July 15 and another ...

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 ...