Settlement subsequently increased the cowbird population and brought cowbirds into contact with many forest species that historically had not faced brood parasitism before. Because cowbird eggs ...

Brood parasitism is a captivating phenomenon ... Their hypothesis that songbird richness and evenness would be higher in cowbird removal sites was not supported. In addition, the proportion of ...

in North America is a brood parasite with over 200 songbirds. Numerous studies show reproductive losses for individual host species, and therefore it has long been assumed that cowbird parasitism can ...

Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the ... Davis, S. K. & Sealy, S. G. Cowbird parasitism and nest predation in fragmented grasslands of southwestern Manitoba. In Ecology and Management ...