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 ...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday a designation of protected land across seven states meant to conserve populations of the yellow-billed cuckoo, a songbird that nests in the ...

(CBS4)- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just designated parts of Colorado as critical habitat for a rare songbird. The Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo migrates every year from Central and South ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center released a rare yellow-billed cuckoo bird to its natural habitat Saturday after months of treatment for injuries. The center said the ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. wildlife managers have set aside vast areas across several states as habitat critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from Central and South America to ...

In my last column, I wrote about the impending eruption of Brood X 17-year cicadas. They’re in full cacophonous swing now. If you live in an emergence area, you know. Depending on one’s outlook, the ...

FILE - In this July 8, 2019, file photo provided by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shows a yellow-billed cuckoo. U.S. wildlife managers have set aside vast areas across several states as ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers have set aside vast areas across several states as habitat critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from Central and South ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers have set aside vast areas across several states as habitat critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from Central and South ...