| Black-billed cuckoo | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Coccyzus |
| Species: | C. erythropthalmus
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| Binomial name | |
| Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson, 1811)
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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".[2]
It is very similar and overlaps in range with the closely related yellow-billed cuckoo. A distinguishing characteristic of the 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.[3]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Coccyzus erythropthalmus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22684328A93024955. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684328A93024955.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 112, 150. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Sealy SG. (2003). Laying times and a case of conspecific nest parasitism in the Black-billed Cuckoo. Journal of Field Ornithology. 74(3): 257–260.