Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow billed cuckoo

[Donna Lee Scott]

I’ve had one or two cuckoos around my place too!
I’ve certainly got enough of the black spongy moth worms for them to eat.

Donna Scott
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On May 25, 2022, at 10:35 AM, Poppy Singer  wrote:

I haven’t yet seen it, but I’ve been hearing a yellow billed cuckoo around my 
house.
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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow billed cuckoo

[Poppy Singer]

I haven’t yet seen it, but I’ve been hearing a yellow billed cuckoo around
my house.

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Common Nighthawk

[Gladys J Birdsall]

I first heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo on the 17th, but it had not made 
the "kddow Kddow" call. Just single notes, and not very loud.  Listening 
to the calls of both Black-billed and Yellow-billed I determined it was 
a Yellow-billed.  The past couple days it has been calling and making 
the full call along with the kddow.   I worked in my garden most of 
today and it was calling off and on the whole time.  At 5 O'clock I was 
walking the dogs out the driveway and it  called out incredibly loud.  
It really surprised me, it continued on and on, I could still hear it 
when we were up the road, going east on Mt. Pleasant.


After dinner, I went out to finish up in the garden.  It must have been 
after 8, not quite totally dark yet.  Instead of birds, there were frogs 
calling.  Suddenly I was hearing a peent or peer call, behind me, over 
the woods.  Just as I realized what it was it must have dove as I heard 
the whir sound - a Common Nighthawk! It continued the peer call as it 
seemed to go out over the field, or stayed over the woods along the 
field flying south, and I heard the whir sound again.  The sky was still 
kinda light but I could not find it.  I did not hear it again.


Good birding,

Gladys


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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow billed cuckoo

[anneb . clark]

Just seen at 1 pm on fall creek rd just e of Freeville at cook rd. Big as life 
but looked cold. Dropped wing showed the russet and the 30 mph zone let me have 
a good look before pulling over. Dropped down in foraging move. Back up and 
then I lost it. Pretty late I think. 
Put in eBird. 
Anne

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo

[Annette Nadeau]

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo was calling in my yard here in Brooktondale at about
6 am. I can still hear it, but from farther to the south.

Annette
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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo

[Geo Kloppel]

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo.is back in my yard today, after spending the past few 
months in a far-away region: perhaps Bolivia, Paraguay, or Argentina...

-Geo


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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo Questions

[Laurie Rubin]

A male yellow-billed cuckoo flew into the young trees near our veggie
garden yesterday. We watched for two solid minutes, just 15 feet away,
close enough to see it catch and eat two hairy caterpillars and then puff
out its throat while singing. When it flew to the other side of the garden,
we spotted the female, and then watched spellbound when the male flew over
to her perch and mated. No sign of them yet today.

Given that yellow-billed cuckoos are shy, was the male seemingly
disinterested in us being so close because he was concentrated on mating?
And is it likely they'll stay here and breed or take off again?

We had one cuckoo several years ago that stayed for only ten seconds!

Happy in Lodi (Parmenter Road), Laurie

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow Billed Cuckoo at Stewart Park

[Ethan Chaffee]

There is a yellow billed cuckoo sitting in a small tree next to the dock.
Thanks to Tim Lenz for locating the bird.

Ethan

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo fledgling--just out of Basin

[Anne Clark]

Finally saw one of the yellow-billed cuckoos (pair) that have been 
singing/calling in our Back Six acres on Hile School Rd, Freeville.  And it had 
a fledgling sitting near it, quietly looking like a very stubby yellow-billed 
cuckoo.  

I couldn't get pictures of the fledgling deep in the bushes, but the adult gave 
me quite a few by hopping around and looking watchful in the upper bush.  A 
testimonial to cuckoos's rapid development--David saw a parent carrying nesting 
material only a few weeks ago.  Now going to get the exact date.

Anne
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW

[Wesley M. Hochachka]

Hi all,

   A (I’m assume the same) YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO was singing this morning at 
about 7:30 AM to the west of the main pond at the Lab of O, somewhere to the 
west of the intersection of Wilson Trail North (just south of where the trail 
meets the side of the pond) and the West Trail (that heads to the Winston Court 
apartments).  The bird was loud enough to be heard from several hundred meters 
away, as I was walking to work through the woods.  The song was as linked from 
the Macaulay Library’s collection.

Wesley Hochachka




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[mailto:bounce-119369312-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Schulenberg
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 9:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW



At noon, I heard a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO do 3 series of 6-8 single coo’s from 
the exclosure area just south of the covered shelter on Wilson.



  Twice this week I've heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Sapsucker Woods, on the 
west side of the road but south of the pond. I heard the same vocalization on 
both occasions, which is much like that of ML 190609

   http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/190609


tss



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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW

[Chris R. Pelkie]

At noon, I heard a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO do 3 series of 6-8 single coo’s from 
the exclosure area just south of the covered shelter on Wilson.
I was close enough by the third series to ensure myself it wasn’t a squirrel, 
though the pacing and separation of series had already indicated that.
However, it shut up and didn’t move while I served as a mosquito meal waiting 
to get a visual or record a 4th series so I left while I still had the strength.

ChrisP
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Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850


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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

However, it shut up and didn't move while I served as a mosquito meal waiting 
to get a visual or record a 4th series so I left while I still had the 
strength.

Once I was riding a bus to Lob of O. I told the driver where I wanted to go. So 
he asked me oh you mean to the mosquito breeding ponds'?
I had to chuckle!

Meena


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Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:37 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW

At noon, I heard a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO do 3 series of 6-8 single coo's from 
the exclosure area just south of the covered shelter on Wilson.
I was close enough by the third series to ensure myself it wasn't a squirrel, 
though the pacing and separation of series had already indicated that.
However, it shut up and didn't move while I served as a mosquito meal waiting 
to get a visual or record a 4th series so I left while I still had the strength.

ChrisP
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Chris Pelkie
Information/Data Manager; IT Support
Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo-Sanctuary Dr.

[Anne Clark]

Seeing Chris' report of one in Sapsucker woods, maybe this is of interest. 

 At 830 am today, there was one very vocal at the end of Sanctuary Dr, both in 
the Salem Park woods at west dead end of Drive, and then moving over to the 
woods to the SE, across the new private road that connects to Salem. It is 
not a bad recording spot, being pretty quiet. 

It did some knocking and also gave some serial Kwolps, repeatedly.  Maybe it is 
the same one, unsure of where it is going to end up?

Anne
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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Brooktondale

[Sandy Podulka]

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo called a few times near our yard in 
Brooktondale this afternoon!


Sandy Podulka



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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo again

[Geo Kloppel]

Again this morning there's a bird around my place in West Danby giving slow 
hollow calls Kowp... ...Kowp... ...Kowp Patricia asked me which cuckoo it 
was, and I said I would call it Yellow-billed. Having declared, I had to make 
an effort to confirm. This time I was able to get very nice views of it as it 
moved around in a willow tree plucking caterpillars, and it is indeed a 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

-Geo
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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo again

[Geo Kloppel]

I was in Rochester yesterday, but back at home this morning, and still have a 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo calling. The call is a harsh throaty Kowp Kowp 
Kowp Kowp Kowp Kowp Kowp Kowp

I had decided that I just couldn't describe the differentiation of Black-billed 
and Yellow-billed Cuckoo calls as John requested, but regarding _this_ 
particular call, I listen for the differences between hard C and harder K, 
and between a mellow oo and a raspy hollow owp.  (this just breaks down a 
transliteration found in some field guides; I'm not asserting that it should be 
meaningful to anyone other than me)

Out the window right now, I'm watching a pair of Great-crested Flycatchers 
gathering nest material from the garden!

My responses to Richard's Mockingbird questions:

 1, How large a collection of different sounds can one bird make?

The brain's the limit!

 2. I recognize some of the sounds. Would a cardinal be confused in hearing 
 his call?

Perhaps momentarily, but the Mockingbird's habit of varying the calls, and 
delivering each one in triplicate, quickly gives the game away

 3. Are the sonograms of a mockingbird and a cardinal about the same, or can 
 you tell them apart.

I'm not up on sonograms, but I assume they can be drawn at various resolutions, 
and that a low-res similarity would break down at sufficiently high resolution.

 4. Mockingbirds migrate. Can you tell where they spent the winter by the 
 songs they sing?

I had a Catbird around home one summer who sang chuck-wills-widow. I couldn't 
say _where_ he learned that, but l don't think he made it up!

 5. Do mockingbirds make calls of predators like owls or hawks?

Yes.

-Geo Kloppel


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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo

[Geo Kloppel]

I was beginning to wonder if any Cuckoos would be breeding in my neighborhood 
this year. But yesterday morning a (presumed male) Yellow-billed Cuckoo was in 
the old orchard as usual, giving his slow series of 7 to 9 soft hollow coos. He 
was very persistent about it, as if advertising for a mate.

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo early morning

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

Today at 0.45 am I was looking for moths when I heard a calling Yellow-billed 
cuckoo flyover.  Today morning by 4.45 am my yard was very noisy or rather 
musical with 10 different species calling. Robin was the main singer. There 
were Carolina wren, male and female cardinals, House wrens (at least two), 
Catbirds, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, American Crow, House 
Sparrow, Red-eyed Vireo and distant Common Yellowthroat.



Overall, I had about 40 species of moths including beautiful peppered moth, 
rosy maple moth and Io moth. I tried to scare as many moths as possible from 
the birds. But Hickory Tussock moths got nabbed by the male cardinal. Catbird 
was too late no moths left for him. But his showed his annoyance by a fire 
cracker chatter and mewing. I had hid both Io and Rosy maple in the thistles, 
so I hope they are surviving. Birds (at least catbird and cardinal) do not 
touch the Pale Beauty. They fluoresce intense blue/yellow in UV.



Cheers

Meena



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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

[Ann Mitchell]

I heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo singing east of me on Eastern Heights Drive
about 5 minutes ago. First time for that yard bird.
Ann

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo on South Hill; Bay-breasted Warblers continue at Hawthorns (late morning)

[Stuart Krasnoff]

I birded around home and then walked the off-the-rail-trail-trails  below 
Juniper Drive on South Hill this morning from about 5:30 to 9:00 AM.  The 
highlight was a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO I spotted at about 7:30.  About an hour 
later on my way back I was about 200 meters from where I saw the cuckoo earlier 
when I heard  soft keeowp calls, but I could not find a cuckoo producing them 
at first.   I did see a rotund lump of Ruffed Grouse in a tree whence the 
keowping issued.  The Grouse eventually took off and the keeowping continued so 
I circumambulated a bit and finally located the Cuckoo in the same tree that 
the Grouse had occupied and watched it call for awhile.  Warblers were few and 
far between.  I managed a quick glimpse of a Magnolia and a Chestnut-sided and 
heard a few American Redstarts and Yellow Warblers.  In between Cuckoo 
sightings I climbed up to the high flat knoll that overlooks the second dam 
(and lower Reservoir).  I heard a Scarlet Tanager singing sporadically in the 
tree-tops up there and watched what looked like two conspecific song birds 
engaged in a high-speed treetop chase for about 20 minutes.  The interaction 
looked more agonistic than amatory although I am aware that there is a fine 
line between the two categories of behavior throughout the animal kingdom.  
There were Red-eyed Vireos singing on territory everywhere in the vicinity this 
morning and my best guess is I was watching two males of the species arguing 
over control of the mountain top.

When I got home and read about the warbler extravaganzas at the Hawthorns and 
Sapsucker Woods I felt compelled to my mini-vacation and ducked into the 
Hawthorns from about 10-11.  Besides Larry Hymes and the more common migrants 
and residents reported by Bob and Chris,  I found 1 Blackburnian Warbler, 3-5 
Magnolias, and a pair of male Bay-breasted Warblers in two different locations. 
No YB Cuckoo, Golden-winged Warbler, or Yellow-bellied Flycatcher for me at 
that hour.

Best...Stuart
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