Female brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) singing at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge near New York City. (Credit: Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0) Brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater, are fascinating ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Brown-headed cowbirds are generalist brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of many other bird species and letting the host parents raise their young. A new study seeks to ...

Over a door in the quiet yard of a historic home in Newburyport, a drama is unfolding. A house finch couple built a nest, the female laid her eggs, and then a brown-headed cowbird showed up. Since ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. One of the many birds returning to Maine for the breeding season is the ...

Berkeley - America's brown-headed cowbird and the European cuckoo are the classic parasitic birds, laying their eggs in the nests of other bird species and leaving the chick-rearing to another parent.

Those are the first lines of a song written in 1979 by Bill Staines, once a regular on Garrison Keillor's radio show. The brown-headed cowbird, our resident cowbird, does have a place in the choir, ...

Spring is officially upon the valley. In less then a month the people that migrated here for winter will migrate to their summer homes. As the winter occupants leave the valley this spring, summer ...

An innate password tells cowboys to copy their songs. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Most songbirds learn to sing by copying songs they hear around them. But young brown-headed ...

Cowbirds in Illinois that sneak their eggs into other birds’ nests retaliate violently if their scam gets foiled, researchers say. The brown-headed cowbirds of North America outsource nest building ...

It’s an odd sight; a small bird like a Carolina wren, song sparrow, house finch or Eastern phoebe is seen feeding a much larger begging bird. I have seen this a few times lately, and so have some of ...

America's brown-headed cowbird and the European cuckoo are the classic parasitic birds, laying their eggs in the nests of other bird species and leaving the chick-rearing to another parent.