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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.

Hábitat: Forests

Aspecto

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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Rareza

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Caterpillar Chomper

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

Habilidad

Stealthy Hunter

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

Habilidad

Rapid Nesting

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

Medidas y detalles

Longitud
28-32 cm
Envergadura
40-48 cm
Peso
0.05-0.07 kg
Esperanza de vida
3-7 años
Top Speed
60 km/h
Tamaño de la puesta
2-5
Incubación
9-11 días
Distancia de migración
6000 km

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • Caterpillars
  • Cicadas
  • Grasshoppers
  • Beetles
  • Moths

Método de búsqueda

  • Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

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

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el longitud de Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

28-32 cm

¿Cuál es el envergadura de Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

40-48 cm

¿Cuál es el peso de Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

0.05-0.07 kg

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

3-7 años

¿Cuál es el top Speed de Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

60 km/h

¿Qué come Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

Forests

¿Cómo caza Yellow-billed Cuckoo?

Foraging

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