Cowbird chicks do best with two warbler nest mates -- not four, not zero, study finds Date: September 13, 2022 Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau ...

Nature has so many different ways to accomplish just one task – reproduction. At this time of year, it seems that everywhere I look I see baby birds. It’s a blizzard of baby birds being… ...

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 ...

The Cowbird no longer lies in the nest, but stands using the edge as a perch (claws can be seen at bottom). Photo by Saul Bocian / World of Birds.

What Do Cardinal Eggs Look Like? There are a few ways to identify Northern cardinal eggs. First, look at their general color. The eggs of these birds come in hues of off-white, such as grayish white ...

The video below depicts a 6-day-old Brown-headed Cowbird nestling ejecting a 6-day-old Indigo Bunting nestling (Passerina cyanea) from the nest.This previously undocumented behavior was recorded on ...

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 ...

Essentially the cowbird mom is pulling a Don Vito Corleone, making the robin an offer she can’t refuse: Either she raises the cowbird chick alongside her own babies, or she loses all the eggs all over ...

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 ...

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

A nest was assaulted. Was it the cowbird or the sparrow? Credit...Michelle Mildenberg Supported by By Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Ms. Hoffstot is a freelance writer living on a farm in western ...