Species: Coccyzus americanus

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - The breeding range extends from interior California to southern Idaho, southeastern Montana, the Dakotas, southern Manitoba (rarely), Minnesota, and New Brunswick, and south to southern Baja California, southern Arizona, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, the U.S. Gulf Coast, and the Florida Keys; sporadically farther south in Mexico and in the Greater Antilles (AOU 1998). The species is uncommon on Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico; rare in the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and northern Lesser Antilles (Saint Martin)m and possibly occurs in the Bahamas and Lesser Antilles (Raffaele et al. 1998). Yellow-billed cuckoos formerly nested in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Based on Breeding Bird Survey data (Sauer et al. 2008), this species is most abundant in the south-central United States (Kansas and Missouri southward to Texas and Mississippi). During the nonbreeding season, yellow-billed cuckoos occur from southern Central America (rare and local in Costa Rica) and northern South America (and Trinidad and Tobago) south to eastern Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina (AOU 1998) and occur rarely in the West Indies (Raffaele et al. 1998).