Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Comparison of black-billed cuckoo (left) and yellow-billed cuckoo. Adults have a long tail, brown above and black-and-white below, and a black curved bill with yellow especially on the lower mandible. The head and upper parts are brown and the underparts are white. There is a yellow ring around the eye. It shows cinnamon on the wings in flight.
[11] The yellow-billed cuckoo and black-billed cuckoo breed in North America and fly across the Caribbean Sea, a nonstop flight of 4,000 km (2,500 mi). Other long migration flights include the lesser cuckoo , which flies from Africa to India , and the common cuckoo of Europe, which flies nonstop over the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara Desert on ...
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. 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 ...
The icterids are a group of small to medium-sized, often colorful passerine birds restricted to the New World and include the grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. Yellow-headed blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Common cuckoo chicks fledge about 17–21 days after hatching, [2] compared to 12–13 days for Eurasian reed warblers. [38] If the hen cuckoo is out-of-phase with a clutch of Eurasian reed warbler eggs, she will eat them all so that the hosts are forced to start another brood.
The icterids are a group of small to medium-sized, often colorful passerine birds restricted to the New World and include the grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. Yellow-headed blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus; Black-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus (U) ... Barn swallow - common over open country during the migration seasons.
Yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus; Black-billed cuckoo, ... Different lengths of legs and bills enable multiple species to feed in the same habitat ...