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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Cuckoos are extremely secretive. They live in hard-to-reach places, either far from roads or on private lands. They hide, often motionless, in ...

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 ...

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, ...

Look who’s come to dine – yellow-billed cuckoos. They’re real birds, not carvings on European cuckoo clocks. And they’re here, probably in greater numbers than usual, most likely thanks to past ...