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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The federal government wants private landowners in arid western states to help identify and designate important habitat for a certain bird species, so the land ...

A 15-mile stretch of the Rio Grande in New Mexico was excluded from habitat protections for the western yellow-billed cuckoo to the chagrin of environmentalists. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...