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Black-billed cuckoo

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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

Diet

Carnivore 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Natural Pest Control 3

Living or Extinct

Yes 4

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

G5 Secure 5

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 3

Scientific Name

Coccyzus erythropthalmus 4

Conservation Status

Least Concern 6

Connections

Child Taxon Of

Source Black-billed cuckoo (Wikidata)

In Biome

Tropical Rainforest

Source Black-billed cuckoo (Wikipedia)

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Found In

Antigua and Barbuda

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Dominican Republic

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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Trinidad and Tobago

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Sources

1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)

2. GBIF Species API

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3. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Animal Diversity Web)

Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Conservation Status: CITES
CITES No special status
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive: "Black-billed cuckoos help control the population"
Black-billed cuckoos help control the population of pest insects through predation.

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4. 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

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5. NatureServe Explorer: Coccyzus erythropthalmus

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "G5"

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6. Black-billed cuckoo (Wikipedia)

Infobox: status
LC
In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Habitat
On their wintering grounds in South America, they can inhabit tropical rainforests, deciduous or semi open woodlands as well as scrub forests.

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