page_title: List of birds of Massachusetts
section_title: Cuckoos
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Massachusetts / Cuckoos
caption_attribution_description: Black-billed Cuckoo from USNPS
context_page_description: This list of birds of Massachusetts includes species documented in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee. As of September 2019, there are 504 species included in the official list. Of them, 179 are on the review list, six have been introduced to North America, three are extinct, and one has been extirpated. An additional eight species are on a supplemental list of birds whose origin is uncertain.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in Massachusetts as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. The following codes are used to denote categories of species:
  Nesting - confirmed nesting records within Massachusetts
  Extralimital nester - record of nesting, but recorded only once or twice
context_section_description: Order: Cuculiformes   Family: Cuculidae
  The family Cuculidae includes cuckoos, roadrunners, and anis. These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails, and strong legs. The Old World cuckoos are brood parasites. Three species have been recorded in Massachusetts.
  Common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus (R)
  Yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus (n)
  Black-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus (n)
caption: Black-billed cuckoo
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