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Federal Tipoffs Involving Arizona Newsletter for Tuesday October 29, 2024 ( 1 items )  

New breeding habitat discovered for rare Yellow-billed Cuckoos
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - The western population of yellow-billed cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) was thought to nest only in mid-elevation riparian areas dominated by cottonwood and willow trees, with perennial surface water. A new paper published in the Journal of Field Ornithology documents, for the first time, the wide extent of their occurrence and nesting i  more