Date: 6/12/26 4:31 pm From: Jacob C. Cooper via groups.io <cooperj2...> Subject: [NEBirds] Cuckoos and more
Hi all,
I first wanted to thank folks for your support of UNK ornithology this year. I realize I did not do a proper write up of our big day, and I apologize for that—it’s been a stressful few months for me and time has escaped me. We had 102 species on our big day, including multiple first county records (such as Burrowing Owl and Black-necked Stilt for Valley County!). Thank you again to Paul Roisen, Peggy Huss, and Sawyer Therrien for joining and thanks to Rita Cunha for guiding us through Valley County. We have a complete list of everything we had on our Big Day here: https://ebird.org/tripreport/520210
I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been reporting cuckoos so far. We have at least one confirmed nesting record of Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the state this year and have reports of them from 39 counties so far! (See below).
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo counties in yellow
As expected, Black-billed Cuckoo reports have been much scarcer, but I have seen reports from the following counties so far:
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Black-billed Cuckoo counties in red
Sawyer and I just arrived in Brown County this afternoon for surveys through the weekend. We will be posting everything we find to eBird.
Thank you again to everyone who has reported cuckoos so far! If you see a county above that is missing cuckoo reports, please let us know if you find any (<therriens...>) or better yet, submit them to eBird when you encounter a cuckoo!<https://ebird.org/checklist/S350760735>
