Mangrove cuckoo
Coccyzus minor
Identification Tips:
- Length: 11 inches
- Thin, decurved bill with yellow lower mandible
- Black mask
- Gray-brown upperparts
- Buffy underparts
- Long tail, black underneath with large white spots
- Sexes similar
- United States range restricted to coastal Florida
Similar species:
The Mangrove Cuckoo is similar to Yellow and Black-billed Cuckoos but has
buffy, not white, underparts and a black mask.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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