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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A yellow-billed cuckoo. Yep, that’s it’s real name. A cuckoo! If you look closely you can see the yellow at the base of the bill. They are slender, long-tailed birds with a white belly and white spots ...

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.

The yellow-billed cuckoo can be found in wooded areas near creeks or bayous.Kathy Adams Clark Yellow-billed cuckoo have a hunchbacked profile with ruddy on the wings. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark.

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 ...

I’m not sure why I am so enraptured with yellow-billed cuckoos. They are not uncommon around here, they are shy and secretive so you won’t see them very often, but we have probably all heard their ...

PHOENIX — A federal judge denied eight environmental groups' request for a preliminary injunction to halt two exploratory mining projects in Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains. The U.S. Forest Service ...

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 ...

DENVER— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to designate critical habitat for the western yellow-billed cuckoo, marking a victory in a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit seeking ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A beloved cuckoo bird won't go federally unprotected in Arizona. Experts are celebrating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent decision to keep the western yellow-billed cuckoo ...