{"id":1704,"date":"2013-06-17T20:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:26:13","slug":"yellow-billed-cuckoo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-billed Cuckoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the exotic, percussive call of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo came from somewhere among the dense green leaves of a tall pecan tree in a neighbor\u2019s yard \u2013 <em>ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-cow-cowp-cowp-cowp.<\/em> Though I didn\u2019t manage to see the elegant bird among the leaves in the treetop, the call alone was bright and welcome enough. I had just about given up on finding even one Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the woods around our neighborhood this summer, so it\u2019s great just to know at least one is here.<\/p>\n<p>Moving quietly through the canopy, where it prefers to stay, the sleek, slender bird \u2013 with velvet-brown back and head, creamy white breast and belly, long, down-curved bill, yellow on the bottom, and long, dramatically-spotted black and white tail \u2013 deliberately makes its way through the branches, eating caterpillars and other insects, now and then giving its clear, expressive call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the exotic, percussive call of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo came from somewhere among the dense green leaves of a tall pecan tree in a neighbor\u2019s yard \u2013 ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-cow-cowp-cowp-cowp. Though I didn\u2019t manage to see the elegant bird among the leaves in the treetop, the call alone was bright and welcome enough. I had just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}