Yellow- billed Cuckoo

1. Yellow- billed Cuckoo

2. Description • Yellow-billed Cuckoos are found in Washington, but they appear rarely during summer. Yellow-billed Cuckoos are skinny, long-tailed birds with white belly and dark backs. They have smooth, grayish-brown backs and ruff wings. Their tails have black-and-white bars when seen from below, but from above they show brown with white spots at the edges. Their bills are mostly yellow and curved downward.

3. Habitat • The yellow billed cuckoo lives in western north America, they love to love in warm moist places. cottonwoods and willows that make open woodland with dense low type of plants are preferred for a yellow billed cuckoo habitat

4. Nesting and feeding Flimsy shallow platform of twigs, lined sparingly with dried leaves or strips of bark. Placed on branch of small tree or large shrub. Clutch Size 1–5 eggs Egg Description Bluish green, unmarked. Condition at Hatching, but alert and active within minutes of hatching. Shiny black skin, no down.

5. Diet • The yellow billed cuckoo eats caterpillars, plants, and sometimes other young birds.

6. Behavior • Yellow-billed Cuckoos earned the name Rain Crow because they appear to call more often on cloudy days, although this behavior has never been known fully. They generally forage by gleaning, watching closely from a perch and waiting for potential prey to move and leave its location.

7. Human and Nature Threats • Other big birds like hawks and crows • Pollution from cars • Oil spills • Building constructors

8. Personal connections http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrfLVIXZMdI&feature=player_embedded

9. Bibliography "BirdWeb." BirdWeb. Seattle Audubon Society, n.d. Web. 21 May 2013. • "Yellow-billed Cuckoo." BirdWeb. Seattle Audubon Society, n.d. Web. 22 May 2013 .