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 ...

The brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) in North America is an obligate or generalist brood parasite of over 200 songbirds. Numerous studies show reproductive losses for individual host species (e.g ...

This data set concerns the possible effects of brood parasitism on the species composition of a songbird community. Your instructor will give you directions about using this file to make figures ...

Some consider brown-headed cowbirds to be a threat. Setting up backyard bird feeders and birdbaths is an easy way to enjoy birdwatching in your yard while supporting local bird populations. However, ...

Our standard mode of written expression, which started as letter writing, currently hovers around the level of the tweet–140-character missives about anything (or nothing) at all. Perhaps not for long ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets striking water, a quick burst followed by a fading ripple.

Several people reported a strange sight at their feeders this past week. In all cases, a small bird was busily feeding a much larger begging bird. The smaller bird was indeed the parent. Unfortunately ...

If you've heard anything about cowbirds, it's likely been some harsh criticism, since the birds have a bad reputation: Rather than take care of their own chicks, they drop their eggs into the nest of ...

“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” the conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, “is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” This is true for the students of prehistory as much as ...

"Imitation is the highest form of flattery ;)" That's the tweet, from @cowbird, in response to the launch of Facebook's user-generated content engine, Facebook Stories. It's half-wry, half-serious, it ...