To celebrate the beginning of spring in the Gaelic calendar, ornithologist Seán Ronayne is across the schedule on RTÉ lyric fm with a new series to discuss the distinct bird songs, melodies and calls ...

The song of an extremely rare species of cuckoo has been recorded for the first time. It is only the third confirmed sighting in a decade of the Sumatran ground-cuckoo and knowing its song will help ...

Every year, the men of Gotham gathered in the village to celebrate a most familiar sound. It was a song like a whistle or a flute, a hiccup or a rich, bubbling chuckle. "Cuck-ooo-ooo, cuck-ooo-ooo," ...

Taylor Long (left), field trip leader with the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society, hears the sound of a yellow-billed cuckoo Saturday during an Audubon field trip at Mill Branch Park in Goshen. Thirty ...

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 ...

Dismissing claims that the Koha or Cuckoo-bird is relatively absent during the current Avurudhu season, environmentalist Jagath Gunawardane said there was a low pitch in its song this year because of ...

ONE of the British countryside’s best-known messengers of spring has joined the “red list” of the UK’s most threatened birds. There’s an old saying that the number of times you hear the distinctive ...

Birders are going cuckoo for a rare sight on Long Island. The common cuckoo bird has been spotted only four times in U.S. history in the lower 48 states, experts say. Now, it's in Riverhead. Hundreds ...