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Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis

Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis

8 Bird Species
Black-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

This species is distinguished from the other two cuckoo species in North America by its all-dark bill, the small white tips on the tail feathers, and, at close range, by its red eye ring. The upperparts are dull gray-brown, with a slight olive cast. The underparts are dull white. Juvenile: Similar to more...

Length: 28 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Common Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Large, slender, long-tailed Old World Cuckoo with gray upperparts and black barring on belly. Slender dark bill with yellow base and yellow orbital ring. Male: Grayish upperparts, darkest on wings, with a paler gray throat and breast and whitish belly. Dark barring on belly with faint barring on unde more...

Length: 33 cm Wingspan: 73 cm

Greater Roadrunner

Greater Roadrunner

Distinctively shaped, with long tail, long stocky legs, ragged crest, and relatively long bill. Adult is streaky brown, black, and buffy overall, with black tail and flight feathers, well-defined streaks on neck, blackish crest, and patches of blue and red bare skin behind eye. Sexes are similar. more...

Length: 58 cm Wingspan: 57 cm

Groove-billed Ani

Groove-billed Ani

A lanky, large-billed, glossy-black bird of Southern Texas. Adult is iridescent black overall, with long tail, short wings, and bare skin around eye. Bill is very deep; upper mandible is almost level with top of head, curving down to meet lower mandible. Namesake grooves on bill usually distinguish f more...

Length: 34 cm Wingspan: 43 cm

Mangrove Cuckoo

Mangrove Cuckoo

Similar to Yellow-billed Cuckoo; occupies mangroves of Southern Florida. Adult has plain dark brown upperparts, clean buffy underparts, long tail with white spots on black underside, black face mask, and thick, slightly decurved bill, with yellow lower mandible and black upper mandible. Yellow-billed more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 43 cm

Oriental Cuckoo

Oriental Cuckoo

A slender Old World Cuckoo with pointed wings and a long, rounded tail. Male: Gray back and head with pale whitish-gray throat and breast. Dark eye with yellow eye-ring. Black, decurved bill with yellow base. White belly with grayish-black barring. Buffy undertail coverts. Black wings and tail. Gray more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 71 cm

Smooth-billed Ani

Smooth-billed Ani

This species is very similar to Groove-billed Ani. The presence or lack of grooves on the bill are not reliable field marks for separating the two. Differences in vocalizations and the shape of the lower mandible are far more reliable. Shiny black overall, with a long floppy tail, thick bill, and bar more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 43 cm

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

This fairly large, lanky woodland bird has white underparts, plain brown upperparts, and a long decurved bill with a mostly yellow lower mandible. The underside of its long tail is dark gray to black with several pairs of oval-shaped white spots. The face features a blackish mask through the eye and more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 46 cm

  • Black-billed Cuckoo

    Black-billed Cuckoo

    2 Photographs
  • Common Cuckoo

    Common Cuckoo

    4 Photographs
  • Greater Roadrunner

    Greater Roadrunner

    11 Photographs
  • Groove-billed Ani

    Groove-billed Ani

    5 Photographs
  • Mangrove Cuckoo

    Mangrove Cuckoo

    0 Photographs
  • Oriental Cuckoo

    Oriental Cuckoo

    0 Photographs
  • Smooth-billed Ani

    Smooth-billed Ani

    6 Photographs
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo

    Yellow-billed Cuckoo

    3 Photographs

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Non-vegetated Areas

0 species

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Salt Water

0 species

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Human-altered Areas

2 species

Black-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets
Greater Roadrunner

Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Fresh-water-sm

Fresh Water

3 species

Groove-billed Ani

Groove-billed Ani

Crotophaga sulcirostris

Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands
Mangrove Cuckoo

Mangrove Cuckoo

Coccyzus minor

Mangroves
Smooth-billed Ani

Smooth-billed Ani

Crotophaga ani

Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Clearcuts
Grassland-and-scrubland-sm

Grassland and Scrubland

5 species

Black-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets
Common Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Cuculus canorus

Open Country and Grasslands
Greater Roadrunner

Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Groove-billed Ani

Groove-billed Ani

Crotophaga sulcirostris

Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands
Smooth-billed Ani

Smooth-billed Ani

Crotophaga ani

Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Clearcuts
Forest-and-woodlands-sm

Forest and Woodlands

4 species

Black-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets
Greater Roadrunner

Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Oriental Cuckoo

Oriental Cuckoo

Cuculus optatus

Boreal Forest
Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets
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