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 ...

Steven Prager, who surveys the western yellow-billed cuckoo in Arizona, certainly will, a toast to celebrate a ruling by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to keep the migratory bird protected under ...

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 ...

“Do you all hear that?” I asked while digging into the cold water with my paddle. Sign up for our daily email newsletter A few seconds later the resonating call echoed again across a wide swath of the ...