Mystery Bird: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus

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[Mystery birds] Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, photographed at High Island, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]

Image: Joseph Kennedy, 19 May 2009 [larger view].

Nikon D200 ,Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/320s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.

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By ground-petrel (not verified) on 23 Jul 2009 #permalink

Another of my favorites, the sound of summer. rb

I'm probably too late for it to still be a mystery bird, but that is a yellow-billed cuckoo. It's one of the 3 brown "U.S." cuckoos, which rules out black-billed. And mangrove cuckoo is pretty much restricted to Florida in the U.S.