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Black-billed Cuckoo
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Black-billed Cuckoo

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Black-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

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".

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