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Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of_the_WP15.xls.
Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2021	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	35,000,000 km2	medium
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	42,400,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	9600000 mature individuals	poor	inferred	2019
Population trend	decreasing	-	inferred	-
Generation length	2.56 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population is inferred to number 9,600,000 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019).

Trend justification: The species has been undergoing a large, significant decline at an average rate of 1.6% per year between 1970 and 2017 (Partners in Flight 2019). Short-term trends suggest that the population in North America declined by 7% over the past ten years (Pardieck et al. 2018).

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Anguilla (to UK)	extant	native				yes
Antigua and Barbuda	extant	native				yes
Argentina	extant	native			yes
Aruba (to Netherlands)	extant	native			yes
Bahamas	extant	native				yes
Barbados	extant	native				yes
Belgium	extant	vagrant
Belize	extant	native				yes
Bermuda (to UK)	extant	native				yes
Bolivia	extant	native			yes
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (to Netherlands)	extant	native			yes
Brazil	extant	native			yes
Canada	extant	native		yes
Cayman Islands (to UK)	extant	native				yes
Colombia	extant	native			yes
Costa Rica	extant	native				yes
Cuba	extant	native		yes		yes
Curaçao (to Netherlands)	extant	native			yes
Denmark	extant	vagrant
Dominica	extant	native				yes
Dominican Republic	extant	native		yes
Ecuador	extant	native			yes
El Salvador	extant	native				yes
France	extant	vagrant
French Guiana	extant	native			yes
Greenland (to Denmark)	extant	vagrant
Guadeloupe (to France)	extant	native				yes
Guatemala	extant	native				yes
Guyana	extant	native			yes
Haiti	extant	native		yes
Honduras	extant	native				yes
Ireland	extant	vagrant
Italy	extant	vagrant
Jamaica	extant	native		yes
Martinique (to France)	extant	native				yes
Mexico	extant	native		yes		yes
Montserrat (to UK)	extant	native				yes
Morocco	extant	vagrant
Nicaragua	extant	native				yes
Norway	extant	vagrant
Panama	extant	native				yes
Paraguay	extant	native			yes
Peru	extant	native			yes
Portugal	extant	vagrant
Puerto Rico (to USA)	extant	native		yes		yes
Sint Maarten (to Netherlands)	extant	native				yes
St Barthelemy (to France)	extant	native				yes
St Kitts and Nevis	extant	native		yes		yes
St Lucia	extant	native				yes
St Martin (to France)	extant	native				yes
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France)	extant	vagrant
St Vincent and the Grenadines	extant	native				yes
Suriname	extant	native			yes
Trinidad and Tobago	extant	native			yes
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK)	extant	native		yes		yes
United Kingdom	extant	vagrant
United States Minor Outlying Islands (to USA)	extant	vagrant				yes
Uruguay	extant	native			yes
USA	extant	native		yes
Venezuela	extant	native			yes
Virgin Islands (to UK)	extant	native		yes
Virgin Islands (to USA)	extant	native		yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Swamp	suitable	breeding
Savanna	Moist	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	breeding
Altitude	0 - 2800 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Threat (level 1)	Threat (level 2)	Impact and Stresses
Climate change & severe weather	Temperature extremes	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Unknown		Unknown		Unknown
		Stresses Reduced reproductive success

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/yellow-billed-cuckoo-coccyzus-americanus on 23/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/11/2024.