[Birdpics] Yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)

[Don Carrier]

While not a rare bird, it's rare enough for me. Taken near my friend Roger's
house on Compton  Mountain Va. this morning. Roger shared with that me his
dad called the bird a Rain Crow. The book titled American Ornithology; Or,
The Natural History of the Birds of the United States published in 1832
credits Virginians for nicknaming the cuckoo Rain-Crow. The Auk quarterly
journal volume VIII published in 1891 credits the natives of Bahamas with
the Rain Crow nickname.
 
At any rate he's a Georgous bird and a lucky find for me.
 
 
 

Don Carrier
Bristol, Tennessee 

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