Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
The Yellow-Billed Cuckoo breeds mostly in the Great Plains and eastward. They prefer dense deciduous woods. Scientists believe that the entire population winters in South America. The population of these birds has declined by half since 1966. The eastern members of this species have declined in numbers, though not as dramatically as those in the west, where the USF&W Service has declared them as threatened, and has disappeared entirely from BC (Canada), Washington and Oregon.
The only meeting with these birds I’ve had were in southern Arizona and south Texas. But I hold out hope that I’ll achieve more encounters in the future.

Yellow-Billed Cuckoo(Coccyzus americanus) |
Description: Buenos Aires NWR. Arivaca, South Central Arizona. |
Date Taken: 2003:08:31 9:53 |
Location:
Arivaca Cienega |
Camera Information: NIKON D1X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: JCD_1495YellowBillCuckoo |
© 2003 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Yellow-Billed Cuckoo(Coccyzus americanus) |
Description: Buenos Aires NWR. Arivaca, South Central Arizona. |
Date Taken: 2003:08:31 9:53 |
Location:
Arivaca Cienega |
Camera Information: NIKON D1X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: Cut-JCD_1495YellowBillCuckoo |
© 2003 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Yellow-Billed Cuckoo(Coccyzus americanus) |
Description: Cuckoos are shy birds, and this one was no exception. It monitored me while maintaining an obscure position in the canopy. It was the only remaining water in the resaca. Resaca de las Palmas in Brownsville, Texas opened to the public a few days before I left Texas on my 2020 expedition. |
Date Taken: 2020:04:29 10:50 |
Location:
Resaca de las Palmas |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: YellowBilledCuckoo_D509198-Resaca-de-las-Palmas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Yellow-Billed Cuckoo(Coccyzus americanus) |
Description: Cuckoos are shy birds, and this one was no exception. It monitored me while maintaining an obscure position in the canopy. It was the only remaining water in the resaca. Resaca de las Palmas in Brownsville, Texas opened to the public a few days before I left Texas on my 2020 expedition. |
Date Taken: 2020:04:29 10:52 |
Location:
Resaca de las Palmas |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: YellowBilledCuckoo_D509204-Resaca-de-las-Palmas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |

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