Episode 107: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo – Voice of the Wild
Yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus).
The mysterious bird with a polka-dot tail and a woodblock call.
Voice of the Wild is a podcast about wildlife and the wild sounds they make.
The following Cornell Lab | Macaulay Library recordings were used in this episode:
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo call by Terri Gallion (ML506906)
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo call by Wil Hershberger (ML506904)
- Black-billed Cuckoo call by Randolph Little (ML506913)
Sources and more:
- Cornell’s All About Birds
- Audubon
- Field guide to hotspots and birds in Illinois by Colin Dobson
- Audubon videoguide to 505 birds of North America
- Peterson field guide to the birds (Fourth edition)
- Sibley Birds East
