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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Stephen Allen-LaForce on May 17, 2007, 11:50:45 AM

Title: Yellow Billed Cuckoo?
Post by: Stephen Allen-LaForce on May 17, 2007, 11:50:45 AM

I was hoping someone could help me, I saw this bird on a balcony next to our condo. I think that its a Yellow Billed Cuckoo but I'm really not sure.

(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/Sharp-Shinned-Hawk/P1000539.sized.jpg)

(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/Sharp-Shinned-Hawk/P1000537.sized.jpg)

Many thanks

Stephen

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Post by: Brian Bailey on May 17, 2007, 12:37:30 PM

It seems like an odd location, but you're right.  It's a Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  The only similar species is the Black-billed, and it clearly isn't that.

BB

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Post by: Kin Lau on May 17, 2007, 01:21:15 PM

Nice find... I wonder if it's dazed because of having hit a window or patio door.

Title: Cuckoo
Post by: Stephen Allen-LaForce on May 17, 2007, 01:23:55 PM

It sat there for a while and then flew off into one of the trees nearby.