Black-billed Cuckoo
Introduction
An extremely rare autumn visitor, even rarer than Yellow-billed Cuckoo, this species has undergone a significant decline within its restricted North American breeding range.
Black-billed Cuckoos eat spiny caterpillars, the spines of which stick in the lining of the bird's stomach, so periodically the stomach lining is shed to remove the spines.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Size
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution.
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
This species has been too rarely reported to BirdTrack during 2011–22 to properly assess seasonality.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Cuculiformes
- Family: Cuculidae
- Scientific name: Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Authority: A Wilson, 1811
- BTO 5-letter code: BLBCU
- Euring code number: 7270
Alternate species names
- Catalan: cucut becnegre
- Czech: kukacka cernozobá
- Danish: Sortnæbbet Gøg
- Dutch: Zwartsnavelkoekoek
- Estonian: põhja-vihmakägu
- Finnish: mississipinkäki
- French: Coulicou à bec noir
- German: Schwarzschnabelkuckuck
- Hungarian: feketecsoru esokakukk
- Icelandic: Regngaukur
- Irish: Cuach Ghobdhubh
- Italian: Cuculo occhirossi
- Latvian: melnknabja dzeguze
- Lithuanian: raudonake amerikine gegute
- Norwegian: Svartnebbgjøk
- Polish: kukawik czarnodzioby
- Portuguese: papa-lagarta-de-bico-preto
- Slovak: kukavka ciernozobá
- Slovenian: crnokljuni kukavec
- Spanish: Cuclillo piquinegro
- Swedish: svartnäbbad regngök
