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Black-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Cuculidae

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".

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 34Brazil · 6United Kingdom · 1