Say 'cuckoo' and a finch-sized bird popping out of a wooden clock every hour probably comes to mind. But, at between 58 and 65 cm tall, with a piercing stare, channel-billed cuckoos are the world's ...

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 ...

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 pecking ...

(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 ...

Generally shy and elusive, the yellow-billed cuckoo can be easily overlooked. Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird. It favors eating caterpillars ...