Yellow-billed cuckoo

The FAA database contains 92 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Yellow-billed cuckoo across 46 airports; damage was indicated in 10.9% and engine ingestion in 4.3%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

Source: FAA National Wildlife Strike Database · Named-subject cohort · Snapshot September 16, 2026

Filed reports921990–export

Airports represented46distinct airport IDs

Damage indicated10.9%of filed reports

Engine ingestion4.3%of filed reports

Damage-indicated reports10FAA report field

Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level

Effect on flight2effect supplied

Reported cost$91Kinflation-adjusted supplied values

02 / YEAR LOG

Yellow-billed cuckoo: 2016–2025 reporting record

Yellow-billed cuckoo has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 64 filed reports in the annual series.

20166 · 0.0% damage

20175 · 40.0% damage

20185 · 0.0% damage

20199 · 11.1% damage

20206 · 16.7% damage

20217 · 28.6% damage

20224 · 0.0% damage

20236 · 0.0% damage

20248 · 0.0% damage

20258 · 0.0% damage

03 / SEASON

Yellow-billed cuckoo: 2021–2025 by month

Yellow-billed cuckoo appears in 33 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan0

Feb0

Mar0

Apr1

May5

Jun1

Jul1

Aug0

Sep10

Oct14

Nov0

Dec1

04 / AIRPORT RECORDS

Yellow-billed cuckoo: published airport records

Yellow-billed cuckoo has 1 published airport combinations representing 13 filed reports that met the publication threshold.

KATLHartsfield - Jackson Atlanta Intl Arpt13 reports · 15.4% damage