Date: 4/21/26 7:05 pm From: Gary Roberts via groups.io <garoberts...> Subject: Re: [NEBirds] Wanted: Cuckoo Sightings
Hi Jacob: You might want to get a notice out to the BBS folks through Joel. BBS routes would be easy to track exact locations of sitings and calls by stops. I do two, one in extreme south eastern Ne. and one just north of my home in Fremont. There are dozens of routes throughout the state.
Gary Roberts
Dodge Couty
On Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 11:42 AM, Jacob C. Cooper via groups.io <cooperj2...> wrote:
To: nebraska birding
Hi all,
Sawyer Therrien (a UNK undergrad) is spearheading a project to survey cuckoos in the state of Nebraska this summer. We will be doing playback surveys across the state for these species. Given that there are only so many areas that we can cover, the presence (or absence) of cuckoos at different spots would be very useful for us.
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If you have a cuckoo this summer, please email either myself or Sawyer Therrien (<therriens...><mailto:<therriens...>)
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If you do hear a cuckoo this summer and you do not get visual confirmation of it, please check with us as well—there is a chance you may be hearing us doing surveys from a distance, and we can let you know if anyone was in that area.
Any help is appreciated, and we will be updating the Nebraska birding community with our findings this fall.
