Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
"The yellow-billed cuckoo ranges from southern
Canada to Mexico. It appears to be declining throughout much
of its U.S. range and has been proposed for endangered status
in the West. Twelve inches long, it is brown above and white
below and flashes rufous primaries in flight. The yellow lower
mandible and large white spots
on the under side of the tail are diagnostic."
Here
is the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Picture taken with a Nikon D80 using a Nikon manual
focus 300mm, f/4.5, manual focus lens.
July 4, 2009.