yellow-billed cuckoo

[Dan Kent]

Thought you all might like to know that we turned up a yellow-billed 
cuckoo in our Dirty Devil side canyons spotted owl inventories June 
15th. It flew to a large, dense ash tree from a medium sized cottonwood 
in a well-spaced stringer along the mostly dry, bouldery wash of a 
narrow, very high walled canyon. Two miles either up canyon or down 
canyon and up a side canyon was a mixed deciduous, predominantly 
cottonwood gallery forest of approximately 100 trees each. There are 
also intermittant springs and cottonwood trees throughout the canyon. 
Apparently the first documented in the Dirty Devil canyons. Don't let 
the model fool you--this is canyon country, and many seemingly strange 
things are possible!

Dan

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