Hi All, The topic of cuckoo vocalizations, and how to identify them, came up recently, so I thought I would share a link to archived recordings of Black-billed Cuckoo and Yellow-billed Cuckoo at the Macaulay Library web site:
Black-billed: http://macaulaylibrary.org/search?taxon=black%20billed%20cuckoo&taxon_rank_id=67&taxon_id=11998247&tab=audio-list Yellow-billed: http://macaulaylibrary.org/search?taxon=yellow%20billed%20cuckoo&taxon_rank_id=67&taxon_id=11998245&tab=audio-list And, just for fun, here are recordings of Common Cuckoo, the famed voice of cuckoo clocks: http://macaulaylibrary.org/search?taxon=common%20cuckoo&taxon_rank_id=67&taxon_id=11999648&tab=audio-list Enjoy! Matt Medler Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --