#brown-headed cowbird

[great-and-small]

Part of Spirit Halloween’s “Scariest Costumes for Passerines” line. Other costumes from this line include outdoor cat and glass windows

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

impress? lovely feathers, yes? impress? attracted to me? good feathers?

eep!

(male brown-headed cowbird attempting to woo a female)

[revretch]

I was out sitting in a field sketching today when a little bird started hanging around me! She started getting closer and closer, until finally she hopped up on my foot, then on my leg, then on my other leg! She must have climbed on me at least four different times! (She also tried to eat my pencil and pooped on my shoe.)

Anyway, I looked her up and it turns out she was a brown-headed cowbird--a type of brood parasite, like a cuckoo! They even have the mafia tactics of cuckoos, laying their eggs in the nests of littler birds and destroying them if their offspring isn't cared for.

I hope she lives a long happy life and terrorizes many little birds to come

[thomas--bombadil]

A content-looking female cowbird. 

[fatchance]

The preferred perch.

Brown-headed cowbird / tordo cabeza café (Moloteras ater).

Brown-crested flycatcher / papamoscas gritón (Myiarchus tyrannulus).

White-winged dove / paloma alas blancas (Zenaida asiatica).

[chickadooz]

It seems I forgot I took these a while ago. Enjoy some cowbird.

Which one do you like more? I'll probably put the most popular one up on INPRNT. 👀

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[alonglistofbirds]

[1815/10977] Brown-headed cowbird - Molothrus ater

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Icteridae (icterids) Genus: Molothrus (cowbirds)

Photo credit: Brad Imhoff via Macaulay Library

[burkh4rt]

[sleepy-sluggo]

Jus a lil guy

[balconybirds]

A brown-headed cowbird!  I love the shiny black feathers 😊

[butcherlarry]

Since it’s a holiday weekend, I was able to go to the arboretum TWICE this week.  Here is my birb haul (along with some additional goodies)

I was so happy to see the goldfinches again!

But it turns out, there are a shit ton here:

There are nine in this picture.  NINE:

Maybe ten?  I don’t know, there are SO MANY:

Blue bird!

PHOTOGRAPHER DETECTED:

I also saw a deer on the other side of the river!  She was hongry:

This little Acadian flycatcher was so nice, and flew in close for me to get a good picture of him:

TITS:

A downy woodpecker (female, there’s no red on the back of her head like a male):

A male cardinal with his funky little hair doo!

MORE TITS:

An indigo bunting:

BUN DETECTED:

another good picture of a cardinal with his funky little hair doo:

ngl, I took so many pictures of the indigo bunting.  Soooooooooo many pictures:

A robin!  She posin’ too!

Brown-headed cowbird:

YOU GUYS!!!!  I SAW!!!  MY FIRST HUMMINGBIRD OF THE SEASON!!!!!!  He’s so far away though (hanging out on the same tree as the cowbird).  I saw him in the flowers and then followed his path when he went up to the tree to chill (he’s a ruby throated hummingbird, btw):

PHOTOGRAPHER DETECTED (again):

There were also some cool turtles!  I thought he looked smug:

This guy was hanging out more in the sun:

They also have big ass koi fish in the big pond????  So cool:

Lily pads with lily flower!

I just think this is so pretty:

More pretty flowers:

I just love the lily pads:

[northernpintail]

Female Brown-headed cowbird, a new lifer for me :) Hard to spot in a mixed flock of mostly RWBB

[everydayesterday]

A Brown-Headed Cowbird (female) perched among the thorns.

photo by me. 2023-08-23 Sachuest National Wildlife Refuge (RI)

[sebring5]

IMG_3320 by Henry Via Flickr: Gimbel’s quail

[thomas--bombadil]

Cowbirds, posing. 

[wandering-in-the-mist]

Perfect day to take the camera with me on my walk!