Nick Bayly

A total of eight Yellow-billed Cuckoo were fitted with tiny radiotransmitters as part of this project. One of the main objectives of deploying the transmitters was to determine how long the birds r...

Last week we received the remarkable news that a SELVA banded/ringed Yellow Warbler had been recaptured just down the road from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Lansing, New York. On checking the ...

The field season is now underway and is going very well. We have already captured 30 Yellow-billed Cuckoos and the peak of migration is still a couple of days away. Six of the cuckoos were fitted w...

We are now in the field and the Yellow-billed Cuckoos have started to arrive. The good news is that we are capturing birds, thanks to a series of canopy nets that we have installed at the field sit...

Yellow-billed Cuckoos tend to spend a lot of time sitting still, just looking around. At first this might appear to be a somewhat inefficient behavior, however, every now and then they spring into ...

You may be wondering how the Yellow-billed Cuckoo got its nickname the Rain Crow. The simple answer is that these cuckoos often appear when it rains but in fact the name tells us a lot about the sp...

Cuckoos are starting to arrive at our study site and with many trees in bloom following the first rains, it makes for a visual feast.In the background you can hear Yellow Warbler contact calls, the...

For many the Yellow-billed Cuckoo may not be top of their list of favorite birds but with the first birds now arriving, we can't resist putting a series of photos celebrating the beauty of this int...