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Twenty years ago last month, I witnessed my first yellow-billed cuckoo. Saw it well, too, at Churchill Woods Forest Preserve in Glen Ellyn. A few things made that experience especially rewarding.

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 ...

A bird that made a big impression on me this year was a young yellow-billed cuckoo making what may have been its first long flight since leaving its nest. Just a few hours or maybe a day after ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The yellow-billed cuckoo has been disappearing from its home in the Western U.S., a decline that prompted the federal Fish and Wildlife Service to announce Thursday that the bird ...

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 ...

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 Arizona, ...

Some state officials and farmers and ranchers in West Texas worry that efforts to provide federal protection for the yellow-billed cuckoo will hurt their industry. The western yellow-billed cuckoo, a ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — The yellow-billed cuckoo has been disappearing from its home in the Western U.S., a decline that prompted the federal Fish and Wildlife Service to announce Thursday that the bird has ...

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 ...