SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo, often called the “rain crow” for its habit of singing right before storms, breeds in streamside gallery forests of cottonwood and willow that once thrived along nearly every ...

THE cuckoo is still singing in this part of the country, I may mention, as a point of some interest, that the note of this bird in South Germany is precisely the same in pitch as it is here, the ...

Most birds spend hours, days, or even weeks painstakingly building their nests. Some birds make nests out of mud, some build nests in trees, and some birds nest on the ground and simply scrape out a ...