Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Also known as: Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo · Eastern Yellow-billed Cuckoo · Rain Crow · Raincrow · California Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Aves
NEAR THREATENED
Stats
- Lifespan
- 4-5 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate woodland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Near Threatened
About
This slender bird lives in the dense, leafy canopy of North American forests. It sheds its stomach lining to purge the prickly caterpillar hairs it eats.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Genus
- Coccyzus
- Species
- Coccyzus americanus