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Photo by loggah
Campton, New Hampshire

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

[edit] Identification

28-31cm. Brown head, upperparts, wings and long tail, creamy white underparts, red eye ring, black bill. Juveniles are drabber, and the eye ring is greenish.

[edit] Distribution

North America east of the Rockies. They migrate to South America.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Edges of wooded areas.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes spiny caterpillars, insects, some snails, eggs of other birds and berries.

[edit] Breeding

It is known occasionally to lay eggs in the nest of other bird species. The young leave the nest 17 days after eggs are laid. Only one brood is raised per year.

[edit] Vocalisation

The call is a rapid repetitive Coocoocoo.

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