The black-billed cuckoo is a New World species in the cuckoo family, breeding across much of the eastern United States and southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains and wintering in northwestern South America. Adults have a long, graduated brown tail, a black, slightly downcurved bill, white underparts contrasting with brown upperparts, and a narrow red ring around the eye; juveniles are duller with yellow eye rings. It favors deciduous and mixed forests, shrubby areas and wetlands, and although its IUCN status is Least Concern its populations are declining. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific NameCoccyzus erythropthalmus 3 Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Black-billed cuckoo (Wikidata)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Antigua and Barbuda, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bahamas, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Barbados, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belize, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bolivia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Brazil, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Colombia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cuba, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Dominica, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Dominican Republic, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Ecuador, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: El Salvador, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Grenada, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Guatemala, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Haiti, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Honduras, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Jamaica, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mexico, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Nicaragua, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Panama, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Paraguay, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Peru, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Saint Kitts and Nevis, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Saint Lucia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Suriname, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Trinidad and Tobago, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Venezuela, found in there.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. GBIF Species API
3. Black-billed cuckoo (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q19027 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Cuculiformes, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 4. Black-billed cuckoo (Wikipedia)
Conservation status (IUCN Red List category stated in entity description)Quote, Conservation status (IUCN Red List category stated in entity description)
and mixed forests, shrubby areas and wetlands, and although its IUCN status is Least Concern its populations are declining.
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