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Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in all 75 counties, across 13 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
13

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 75 counties
Habitats
13
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 13

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 13

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerWest Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems; Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier; Mississippi River Bottomland DepressionJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874), a neighboring state.The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Mississippi River Riparian Forest; Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest; Red River Large Floodplain Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain; Ozark-Ouachita Riparian

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

SummerWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods; Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods; West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods

Seeps and springs

Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs.

SummerWest Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland; Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Disturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Forests and woodlands

Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest; Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest; Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerOnly within 120 m of water.Deciduous Plantation; Evergreen Plantation or Managed Pine; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (113)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

In Arkansas 5

  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
Elsewhere in the South (57)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Summer.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Summer.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
  • South Florida Hardwood Hammock Summer.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer.
  • Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer.
Northeast (9)
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
Midwest (6)
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer, only within 120 m of water.
Land cover and other classes (36)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Summer: nests here, in all 75 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo uses many habitats in Arkansas; these are its 3 most characteristic.

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 77

Plants 313

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Arkansas

Swamps

Birds 63

Plants 223

All of swamps in Arkansas

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Birds 33

Plants 15

All of hardwood and oak flatwoods in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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