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FLORA AND FAUNA OF LECHAT NOIR FARM

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Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

9/22/2020

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo
(Entry #7) You may disagree that their beaks are yellow. I do myself. But anyway, there's a little yellow, so it's yellow-billed. Their scientific name is Coccyzus americanus. 
They are a brown color, with a yellow beak tipped with black. Their tail is mostly the same color; they are white on the underside, and the inside of their wings is red. They are not sexually dimorphic, as far as I know.
They are more common than I once thought. They are, as Emily has reported, curious, and like to watch you. Or so she says. They are elusive, and wood-oriented like the thrushes. Kind of like a spy, in Emily's words.
Their diet seems mostly to be caterpillars. They have long beaks, which I shall note. 
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Cuckoo with a caterpillar
They are not hard to tell apart from other birds; they are pretty large and distinctive. 
This is not as informative as I had hoped it would be. Now, they make a sound similar to cuckoo, but repeated over and over again in rapid succession. It is supposed to be different from the other type of cuckoo. And otherwise I know nothing else.
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    PeTER tHOMER

    I like observing animals, especially birds. I also take care of the goats. I like goats. 

    EMILY THOMER

    My assistant photographer! She also takes care of African geese.

    YVONNE THOMER

     Another assistant photographer! She takes care of the rabbits, and the hutch is teeming with crawly things.

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