Q. Do brown-headed cowbirds select the nest of another bird to lay eggs in based on which species raised them as a nestling? In other words, if a cowbird is raised as a chick by a red-winged blackbird ...

Cowbirds have long been known to lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then raise the cowbirds' young as their own. Now, however, a University of Florida study finds that cowbirds actually ...

Despite their reputation as uncaring, absentee moms, cowbird mothers are capable of making sophisticated choices among potential nests in order to give their offspring a better chance of thriving, a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aspects of the breeding ecology of the Bronzed Cowbird (Molothrus aeneus) were studied from early April to mid-July or August 1980 to 1982 at ...

Many species of birds get reputations of various sorts. One species that gets a bad rap, through no fault of its own, is the brown-headed cowbird. The female cowbird lays its eggs in the nests of ...

The brown-headed cowbird is one of the most hated birds in the entirety of the animal kingdom. Each springtime, when most birds are settling down to build their nests, the cowbird is sneakily plotting ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Brown-headed cowbirds are unconventional mothers. Rather than building nests and nurturing their chicks, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species, leaving their young ones ...