#0988 · 🐦 birds

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

🇳🇱 Geelsnavelkoekoek ·Coccyzus americanus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ashley Tubbs · CC BY-ND 4.0
2. © kirk gardner · CC BY 4.0
3. © Jenny · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Trent R. Stanley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. San Gabriel Blvd, Georgetown, TX, US:© mhwell · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bronx County, US-NY, US:© alyssal26 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Botlek, Rotterdam, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. © Jon McIntyre · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The yellow-billed cuckoo ( Coccyzus americanus ) is a cuckoo. Common folk-names for this bird in the southern United States are rain crow and storm crow . These likely refer to the bird's habit of calling on hot days, often presaging rain or thunderstorms.

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,861iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).