Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Cuculiformes > Cuculidae > Coccyzus > Coccyzus erythropthalmus

Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Black-billed Cuckoo)

Synonyms: Coccyzus erythrophthalmus; Cuculus erythrophtalma; Cuculus erythropthalmus (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) is a New World species in the Cuculidae (cuckoo) family. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus name kokkuzo, means to call like a common cuckoo, and erythropthalmus is from eruthros, "red" and ophthalmos, "eye". It is very similar and overlaps in range with the closely related yellow-billed cuckoo. A distinguishing characteristic of family Cuculidae is laying eggs in the nests of other birds. Although many cuckoos are obligate brood parasites, C. erythropthalmus often incubate their own chicks.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.4639
EDGE Score: 2.91582
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  50 grams
Birth Weight [3]  7 grams
Female Weight [1]  56 grams
Male Weight [1]  44 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  27.3 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Boreal forests, Temperate eastern forests
Wintering Geography [2]  S. American Lowlands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore
Diet - Ectothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Fish [4]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  30 %
Forages - Understory [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  30 %
Clutch Size [3]  2.5
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  23 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  890,000
Incubation [3]  14 days
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Migration [5]  Intercontinental
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year

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Mesic Coastal Plain Oak Forest United States (New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia)

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0