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Springfield. For more information on brown headedcowbirds, click here. Brown headed cowbirds are native birds that are at home in open areas and the forest's ...
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How cowbirds take advantage of other birds
Cowbirds hatch a few days earlier and are often bigger and more aggressive than the nesting species. Photographs by Dennis Oehmke. Quick Facts About Brown-Headed Cowbirds Brown-headed cowbirds are a ... over others also favors some species over others. That is why European starlings, brown headed cowbirds, raccoons, and other inhabitants of the forest's edge thrive, while other are ...
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USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Research Product: USE OF LICE TO IDENTIFY COWBIRD HOSTS
(Phthiraptera) may be utilized by biologists to investigate the brood parasitism patterns of Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater). As nestlings, brood parasites have a unique opportunity to encounter lice that ... , all known hosts of the Brown-headed Cowbird. As a group the host birds bore a diversity of louse species comparable to that on the fledgling cowbirds: 13 species of lice ...
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Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory : Conservation : Wetlands
High concentrations of livestock near wetlands may also affect the number of Brown-headed Cowbirds present; these brood parasites reduce the reproductive success of many other songbirds when they lay ...
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Alachua Audubon - FAQs About Birds & Birding
Northern Mockingbirds, Brown Thrashers, and Northern Cardinals. And raking your dead leaves under these shrubs and letting them ... otherwise illegal to kill ANY native birds, including hawks, crows, vultures, Blue Jays, and (alas) Brown-headed Cowbirds. It is also illegal to disturb their nests and eggs. It is LEGAL to kill ...
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Alachua Audubon - Best Birding Sites
Species Found Eastern Bluebirds, Pine Warblers, Summer Tanagers, Brown-headed Nuthatches, Eastern Towhees, Brown Thrashers, Northern Bobwhites, and various woodpeckers are all resident. The arrival ... tin-roofed cattle pens by the thousands - mostly Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings, but one or two Yellow-headed Blackbirds usually check in during October or November. ...
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Index of Topics for "This Week at Hilton Pond" (2001)
March Madness: The Attack of the Tent Caterpillars April 2001 01-07--#67--Buffalo Birds (Brown-headed Cowbirds) 08-14--#68--Taming of the Shrew (Southern Short-tailed Shrew) 15-21--#69--Have ... Protuberance & Incubation Patch) 08-14--#76--Pipsissewa 15-21--#77--Bats In Our Belfrey (Big Brown Bat?) 22-28--#78--Pee-yew, Must Be A Stinkhorn! (Mushroom) 29-30--#79--A ...
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The Piedmont Naturalist, Volume 1 (1986)
Carolina Wrens: A Lesson in Persistence (20 Jul) 16--Down With Lawns! (27 Jul) 17--Brown-headed Cowbirds: Avian Social Parasites (03 Aug) 18--Sex Life of the Red-eyed Turtle (10 Aug ...
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Hudson River Almanac -- September
A mixed flock of about 1,500 rusty blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, and starlings, rolled like a cloud over a meadow at Rockefeller State Park, then disappeared ...
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Blackbird,Icterinae, Damage Control and Management Information by Richard Dolbeer
(Molothrus ater), smallest of the blackbirds, often feeds in close association with livestock. The female cowbird (lower) lays her eggs in the nests of other birds. Range and Habitat Cowbirds ... on the use of Starlicide. Trapping Certain species of blackbirds, particularly redwings, brown-headed cowbirds, and common grackles, often can be readily trapped in decoy traps. Consult ...
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