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Field Guide for all the Birds of North America

Cuckoos

Coucou

Cuculidae

Lives, Habitats & Pictures of the Cuckoos

Information, images and range maps on over 1,000 birds of North America, including sub-species, vagrants, introduced birds and possibilities

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There are three types of cuckoos found in North America. The Black-billed Cuckoo is the most common of the group and has a range throughout most of southern Canada and across the American plains down to Texas and into Florida.

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is seen less in Canada but its habitat extends into Mexico. The third type and most sought after is the Mangrove Cuckoo, which lives in the lower regions of Florida only.

The cuckoos' main diet is a variety of caterpillars. These birds never really settle into one region but are more likely to be seen and nest wherever there is an abundant supply of caterpillars to live on.

Click on the bird names listed below to see pictures of the Cuckoos seen in North America

Black-billed Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Mangrove Cuckoo

Oriental Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

References to Other Bird Sites:

Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.

ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.

I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.

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