Yellow-billed Cuckoo

My first photo of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

Description

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is a cute bird with a yellow and black beak, white throat & underside, a tan upper side and a yellow eye ring. I’ve only noticed it in trees and never on the ground. The bird makes a call that sounds like a crying puppy to me. It was from this crying that I found my first cuckoo on my own.

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First observation

📆	07/11/2021
📍	San Antonio, Texas

Captured media details

	Male	Female	Unknown
📸			✔️
🎙️			✔️

Experiences & anecdotes

5/21/22 - I technically first saw or heard this bird on a group trip to Mitchell Lake in July 2021 but consider my own 'discovery' of this bird to be the following month when I found it at Pearsall Park on my own. I got a really great look and ID of it and even got a recording of its 'crying puppy' call. I hadn't seen this bird since last year and when I led my first bird walk this past weekend, it made a grand appearance to everyone's delight.

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Photographs

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo holding what looks like a caterpillar it found | 08/07/2021

A profile view of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 05/21/2022

Front view of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 08/02/2021

Audio recordings

ML358695801 - 1:50
- Listen to the coos of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo. It reminds me of a puppy.