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Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus ORDER: CUCULIFORMES FAMILY: CUCULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo Photo

© Kevin T. Karlson

A common, but slow-moving and secretive denizen of woodlands, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo eats large quantities of hairy caterpillars. Its loud call is heard far more frequently than the bird is actually seen.

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Calls

  • call
    Recorded by Arthur A. Allen, Peter Paul Kellogg; James L. Gulledge, Gregory F.Budney
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a throaty "ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, kow, kowp, kowp, kowp, kowp." Also makes single coos.

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