Mangrove Cuckoos are another quite common bird out on Cayo Coco Cuba. It’s not long after you start birding in the morning before the familiar call of the Mangrove Cuckoo is heard.
Like other cuckoos, the secretive Mangrove Cuckoo is a quiet and still presence as it watches for insects and small lizard prey. This slender, long-tailed bird nests in tangled mangrove forests of southern Florida; in its large Caribbean and Latin American range it occurs in lowland and foothill rainforests as well. A mostly brown bird with a yellow or gray ring around the eye, it resembles the Yellow-billed Cuckoo but has a black mask and a warm buff belly. Cornell All About Birds
Like other cuckoos, the Mangrove Cuckoo has four toes on each foot in a "zygodactyl" arrangement, with two toes forward and two behind, rather than three-forward, one-back of many other birds.
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