Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
26 - 30 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Wood-borders, thickets, bushy roadsides, orchards or cultivated ground, during the breeding season.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B) (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (NB), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B).

Vagrant to Belgium, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), United Kingdom.

South-eastern Canada and USA to Mexico (inland northern Pacific slope, Baja California and Caribbean lowlands in Tamaulipas and Yucatán Peninsula) and northern West Indies. Winters in South America.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 9,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Chiefly insects, caterpillars and some fruit.

Voice
Mainly silent outside the breeding season.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (128)...)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) [XC221183]
by Richard E. Webster from Devil Den's SP, AR, United States (song)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) [XC502814]
by Janine McCabe from Alamos, Sonora, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Pearly-breasted Cuckoo (Coccyzus euleri). Birds in western North America have been described as subspecies occidentalis, but much overlap in size exists and most birds cannot be distinguished. A claimed record of hybridization with Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) refers to a juvenile Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

The Reader's Digest Book of British Birds 1980, 3rd Edition, Drive Publications Ltd ISBN 0 340 25308 8
Birds in Colour Campbell, B., 1960, Penguin Books Ltd
The Pocket Guide to Nest and Eggs Fitter, R.S.R., 1954, Collins
RSPB Handbook of British Birds Holden, P., Cleeves, T., 2002, A & C Black ISBN 0 7136 5713 8
Birds of Britain and Europe Sterry, P., et al., 2001, AA Publishing ISBN 0 7495 3068 5
The Popular Handbook of British Birds Hollom, P.A.D., 1973, H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd ISBN 0 85493 002 7

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) - 10 files

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