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 ...

Cowbirds are common in the area, and in winter they can be seen in large flocks, together with other kinds of blackbirds. The full name is brown-headed cowbird to distinguish it from two other ...

FORT SILL, Okla. -- The brown-headed cowbird is one of those native birds that wasn't raised with good manners. And that's a problem for the black-capped vireo. You see, the vireo is an endangered ...

There are exceptions to all birds being equal in my book. And one of them is the lazy brown-headed cowbird female, who neither makes a nest nor raises her young. It is not her fault for being lazy, ...

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 ...

RIDGELY — During the Adkins scheduled bird walk on May 28, I found an empty Brown-headed Cowbird egg on the ground with a hole in it. I speculated that the bird whose nest the female Cowbird had ...