With all the humidity and rainy weather lately, I have been hearing a lot of rain crows calling. The term “rain crow” is sort of a misnomer, though. They are not crows at all; they are yellow-billed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

There were two sightings of Western yellow-billed cuckoos this year, both in Delta County, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. The secretive birds are listed as threatened under the Endangered ...

Federal wildlife officials say the rare Western yellow-billed cuckoo has been spotted twice in Delta County. The Daily Sentinel reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the secretive birds ...

State wildlife managers want input from the public on their recommendation to make the yellow-billed cuckoo an endangered species in Washington. Citizens can review ...

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 ...