DECLINE, STATUS AND PRESERVATION OF THE YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO IN CALIFORNIA

Abstract

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus), formerly a "fairly common" breeding species in "willows of fairly old growth, often mixed with cottonwoods... on the broad flood-bottoms of larger streams" (Grinnell and Miller 1944), has become one of California's rarest birds. The paucity of recent records justifies concern for its survival in the state.