The yellow-billed cuckoo is a trans-Gulf migrant as well as southeastward over Caribbean Islands. In spring, the Gulf Coast peak occurs around May 1 and in the southern Great Lakes May around May 10.

And then there are the forlorn calls of the yellow-billed cuckoo. In the excerpt from Wordsworth’s poem cited above, the poet was referring to the European cuckoo, ...

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 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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made public its recommendation for the western yellow-billed cuckoo in a federal notice. If approved, ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo is a common spring nester in Georgia, but most birdwatchers probably get only fleeting glimpses of it. Furtive, retiring, and secretive by nature, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – The federal government has designated the yellow-billed cuckoo a threatened species. The bird lives part time in the western United States and has a large presence in southern ...

TUCSON, Ariz.—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 298,845 acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed ...

The rare yellow-billed cuckoo is a shy, slender, long-tailed bird that migrates from Central America in spring to breed in streamside forests that once thrived throughout Southern California.

As the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website AllAboutBirds.org notes, however, "As long-distance, nocturnal migrants, Yellow-Billed Cuckoos are vulnerable to collisions with tall buildings, cell ...

Two species occur in Ohio: the aforementioned black-billed cuckoo, and the more common and wide-ranging yellow-billed cuckoo. Although they look like songbirds, ...