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 ...

Little Swamp Sanctuary may have a depth of water ranging from two to eight feet in the spring, but shrink to areas of dark muck soil along the edges and a lower water table in the dry parts of the ...

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 ...

DENVER (CN) — The Friends of Animals claims in federal court that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to designate critical habitat for the Western distinct ...

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 ...

The name "cuckoo" tends to bring forth images of some exotic bird from faraway lands or the old-fashioned clock that announces the time with the appearance of a carved wooden bird. There are also ...

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 ...