Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo sitting on a tree branch and looking to the left.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo North Holiday Park Benbrook TX May 28 2022
EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-8000; f/10; 1/2000 sec.

This page is for the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus). My first photographic evidence of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo was on May 28, 2022 at North Holiday Park in Benbrook, TX. I was trying to find a male Painted Bunting as I saw a female the week before. I saw these birds fly to a nearby tree as I was walking toward the lake, and managed to get this shot before they flew away.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo perched on a branch in a dead tree.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, July 10, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-1000; f/11; 1/1600 sec.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo perched high in a tree among the leaves.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (juvenile), Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, September 24, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-2500; f/11; 1/500 sec.