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 a better view of the tail.
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.