The National Audubon Society estimates the cowbird has parasitized more than 220 bird species across North America. This makes it easy to see the cowbird as a villain, but the story is more ...

Which meant a nonnative bird was killing our native birds. House sparrows, originally from Europe and Asia, were brought to Brooklyn in the 1850s to control caterpillars.

That cowbird melodrama — extra squawking, begging and tilting of the head — may be what allows it to parasitize a wide variety of host species without specialized looks or sounds, Ferneda says.

Cowbird chicks do best with two warbler nest mates – not four, not zero, study finds Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau ...

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Sun., July 7, 2024 Outside the home of WSU wildlife ecologist Rod Saylor near Clarkston, a cowbird couple admires their reflections in a window. What brown-headed cowbirds lack in good looks, they ...

The intrusive cowbird youngster would not be able to hijack the finch family after all. Not sure what happened but I suspect the mother finch was somehow responsible.

The intrusive cowbird youngster would not be able to hijack the finch family after all. Not sure what happened but I suspect the mother finch was somehow responsible.

It’s that time of year here in our neck of Pennsylvania when it’s prime nesting season for our feathered friends. Case in point: Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds.