Black-billed Cuckoo
“This uniquely elegant creature of the heathland, farmland and hedges of Europe is similar in appearance to that of our Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoo.”
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This uniquely elegant creature of the heathland, farmland and hedges of Europe is similar in appearance to that of our Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoo.
I also spied a single, Black-billed Cuckoo (out our back window) for all of five seconds before it slipped away into the brushy edges of the yard.
On this same day, there were reports of a Black-billed Cuckoo within Two Lights State Park.
Of note, I was quite certain that I heard the harsh chortle of a Black-billed Cuckoo migrating overhead.
Slightly longer than a robin, the Yellow billed Cuckoo is distinguished from its cousin, the Black billed Cuckoo, by reddish flight feathers and black tail feathers marked with large white spots.