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To hear songs, learn identification information, migratory patterns, and some fun facts, check out the Yellow-billed Cuckoo page offered by one of my favorite resources: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology »
It’s song/call is pretty distinctive, or as they say on allaboutbirds.org, “Yellow-Billed Cuckoos have a primal-sounding, croaking call that they often give in response to loud noises. Their tendency to call at the sound of thunder has led to their colloquial name, the “rain crow.”
