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.

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 ...

Ecologically, the yellow-billed cuckoo is one of Georgia’s most important birds — one of the few species that readily eat spiny, hairy caterpillars, including destructive tent caterpillars.

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 ...

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 ...