black-billed cuckoo
coccyzus erythropthalmus latin

Black-billed cuckoos like the wild cherry's messy fruit.

There were still black-billed cuckoos, pairs in every oak it seemed, their rhythmic clucking heard night and day.

Both the yellow-billed cuckoo and the black-billed cuckoo are vagrants to Europe.

He has a cousin very much like himself in appearance, save that his bill is all black and he is listed the Black-billed Cuckoo.

Only one of the family, the Black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson), is known to be a brood parasite.

The Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) is a cuckoo.

Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos occasionally lay eggs in the nests of other birds, but are not obligate brood parasites like the Common Cuckoo of Eurasia.

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Black-billed Cuckoo breed in North America and fly across the Caribbean Sea, a non-stop flight of 4000 km.

In addition several hawk and falcon species (not grassland-dependent) have been seen at the site, and black-billed cuckoo and wood thrush have been nesting in the woodland portions.

BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO Coccyzus erythrophthalmus.

Northern species such as Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos are strong migrants, wintering in Central or South America, and occasionally wander to western Europe as rare vagrants, but the tropical Coccyzus cuckoos are mainly sedentary.

The wing shape also varies with lifestyle, with the more migratory species like the Black-billed Cuckoo possessing long narrow wings capable of strong direct flight, and the more terrestrial and sedentary cuckoos like the coucals and malkohas having shorter rounded wings and a more laboured gliding flight.

The Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) is a cuckoo.