Coccyzidae

{{Short description|Family of birds}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Coccyzidae

| image = Coccyzus-americanus-001.jpg

| image_caption = Coccyzus americanus

| taxon = Coccyzidae

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Coccyzidae was a family of birds comprising 18 new world cuckoos, ranging from Canada to Argentina. The family consists of the genera Coccyzus, Coccyua, and Piaya.

{{cite book|title=Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 4|year=1997|publisher=Lynx Edicions|editor=del Hoyo, J.|location=Barcelona|display-editors=etal}} This family is today typically subsumed within Cuculidae, e.g. by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC).{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2022 | title=Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/turacos/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=9 May 2022}}

Of those whose habits are known, their main diet is insects. They tend to nest in trees and can lay up to 7 eggs (Coccyzus) although Saurothura only lays 2–3. Only one of the family, the Black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson), is known to be a brood parasite.

Both the yellow-billed cuckoo and the black-billed cuckoo are vagrants to Europe.{{cite book |title=The Birds of the Western Palearctic [Abridged] |year=1997 |publisher=OUP |isbn=0-19-854099-X}}