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Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is a beautiful bird known for its bright yellow bill and soft, cooing sounds. It loves to hide in trees and is often seen flitting about in search of tasty insects.

Lebensraum: Forests

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The Yellow-billed Cuckoo has a slender, elegant body with a long tail. It features a bright yellow lower mandible, dark brown upperparts, and clean white underparts. Distinctive rufous patches flash on its wings during flight, and its long tail shows bold white spots from below.

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

During outbreaks of cicadas or caterpillars, cuckoos can gorge themselves, eating hundreds in a single day!

If food is scarce, a female cuckoo will lay fewer eggs, making sure each chick has enough to eat!

Their unusual call is often heard just before a summer rain, earning them the nickname "Rain Crow"!

These birds are incredible long-distance flyers, migrating thousands of miles from North America to South America!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Caterpillar Chomper

Yellow-billed Cuckoos can eat many hairy caterpillars because they shed their stomach lining to remove irritating spines.

Fähigkeit

Stealthy Hunter

Yellow-billed Cuckoos have soft feathers that allow them to fly almost silently, helping them ambush insect prey.

Fähigkeit

Rapid Nesting

Yellow-billed Cuckoos can raise their young from egg to flight in a remarkably short 17 days, especially when food is abundant.

Maße und Details

Länge
28-32 cm
Flügelspannweite
40-48 cm
Gewicht
0.05-0.07 kg
Lebenserwartung
3-7 Jahre
Top Speed
60 km/h
Gelegegröße
2-5
Brutzeit
9-11 Tage
Zugstrecke
6000 km

Ernährung und Fütterung

These birds are insect-eating champions, especially loving caterpillars!

Hauptnahrung

  • Caterpillars
  • Cicadas
  • Grasshoppers
  • Beetles
  • Moths

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Eastern Tent Caterpillar

Malacosoma americanum

devours large numbers of these fuzzy pests.

hunts

Periodical Cicada

Magicicada septendecim

gorges during their infrequent, noisy outbreaks.

eaten by

Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii

a swift avian predator that may catch cuckoos.

parasitizes

American Robin

Turdus migratorius

sometimes lays eggs in their nests for others to raise.

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Enjoy watching birds from a distance, and be quiet so you don't scare them away!

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

28-32 cm

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

40-48 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

0.05-0.07 kg

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

3-7 Jahre

Was ist der/die/das top Speed von Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

60 km/h

Was frisst Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

These birds are insect-eating champions, especially loving caterpillars!

Wo findet man Yellow-billed Cuckoo normalerweise?

Forests

Wie jagt Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

Foraging

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Neueste Snaps

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