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.
Personal stats
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.
Captured media
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.
From my blogs
- Leading a bird walk at Pearsall Park with Bexar Audubon Society
- Los Angeles Bird Fest 2015 Attracts Bird Lovers from All Over
- Finding a Yellow-billed Cuckoo while birding at Pearsall Park
- Birding in Boerne
- Painted Buntings and Nesting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
- Recording and photographing birds at the same time