Black billed cuckoo

[Britt Vickstrom]

Hi all,

Should I submit to someone that I had a black billed cuckoo in Davenport, Scott Co May 25? I don't sumbit regularly to EBird. I probably should be better about that. I often let  Merlin record at my window to see what it says might be around. Lately, it has repeatedly said there is a northern mockingbird. I thought I finally saw one, but when I got a photo of the bird, I was thrilled to get this lifer black billed cuckoo, especially since I know they're in steep decline. I live on the 4th floor and I have 100+ year old oak trees outside my windows. Usually, they are a great lure for warblers during migration, but this year was a bit of a dud. Perhaps because the storms knocked down the oak catkins early in the season?

The next week after I saw this lovely, I had a yellow-billed cuckoo across the river in Moline. 

Britt Vickstrom

Davenport

[Wendy VanDeWalle]

Yes! You can still do an eBird report after the fact. Just change the date and time. Make sure it’s the same as your picture and attach that too. You can do it as an incidental report if you don’t have a list of the other birds you saw at the time. 

You can also report it on the IOU website. Please do it as soon as you can,  because June 15th is the cutoff for spring reports. ( Connor will be sending a reminder email soon). 

Awesome sighting! 

Wendy VanDeWalle

Buchanan Co. 

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[Britt Vickstrom]

I will sumbit it. I also had a summer tanager a few hours earlier that day. I am very grateful for these oak trees. 

Britt

[wxq...@gmail.com]

Including one I saw at Ada Hayden, Ames on May 25, and one observed by Aaron Webb at Chichaqua Bottoms, there are three Black-billed Cuckoo reported through facebook and email. 

Xiaoqing Wu

Ames

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On Jun 8, 2025, at 6:10 PM, Britt Vickstrom <brittvi...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Wendy VanDeWalle]

That’s awesome! The data file that the field editors get only contains reports from eBird or Iowabirds.org. 

Can you submit your sighting to one of those? 

Wendy 

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