Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)

About Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Cuckoos
• Family: Cuckoos

The black-billed cuckoo is a New World species in the Cuculidae (cuckoo) family. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus name, kokkuzo, means to call like a common cuckoo, and erythropthalmus is from eruthros, "red" and ophthalmos, "eye".