on 8/7/06 9:07 AM,  at  wrote:

> Many thanks to those that pointed out that our Yellow-billed and Black-billed
> Cuckoos are not parasitic!  I'm dumbstruck that I've been birding for many
> years and had been laboring under an incorrect myth for so long!  Wow -- it's
> amazing what MDOsprey can reveal to the misinformed!

Well, they may not be generally parasitic but, according to Bent,
Yellow-billed Cuckoo females sometimes lay eggs in the nest of Black-billed
Cuckoo and rarely in nest of other birds.

I found this reference in the Encyclopedia of North American Birds by John
K. Terres.

Elliot

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Elliot Kirschbaum
Shepherdstown, WV
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