From Cornell's All About Birds:
"Yellow-billed Cuckoos sometimes lay their eggs in other birds’
nests...Yellow-billed Cuckoos sometimes lay eggs in nests of other
cuckoos as well as in those of American Robins, Gray Catbirds, and
Wood Thrushes."
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:41 PM Sandy Rueckert <sandyrueckert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I volunteer at the Humane Society Wildlife center and noticed one of their
handouts said cuckoos laid their eggs in other nests. I told them this was
true for European cuckoos but not American cuckoos. I got a reply back that
black and yellow billed cuckoos were “interspecific” and “intraspecific”
nest parasites, with yellow billed cuckoos using other nests more than
black billed.
I had never heard this about cuckoos here; anyone else have any info on
this?
Sandy
Middleton
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