Talk:Brown-headed cowbird

Cowbird's Unique Parasitism
This was a well-written article that mostly focused on the Cowbird’s parasitic behavior. It gave a full description of the specie’s reproductive behavior (parasitizing on other birds), the host response to the Cowbird’s eggs, and even the Cowbird parents’ behavior after parasitizing other birds’ nests (they would frequently come back to check on their eggs, and if their eggs have been removed by the host, the Cowbird may retaliate by destroying the host nests or eggs!). Other behavioral traits of these birds are only briefly mentioned and remain underdeveloped (for example, courting behavior). However, the article never mentions the way in which the Cowbird’s parasitism is different from other bird’s (cuckoos and honeyguides) parasitism. Instead of ejecting the eggs or killing the host’s chicks, the young Cowbirds actually perform better when there are other host young! Also, it would be good to note that experimental findings have determined that cowbird young do best when they are in a nest with two other host nestlings. Ihyuan (talk) 19:54, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Cluster song
Instead of adding a "See also" section which remarkaly doesn't exist in this article, I'm posting this here: Lateralization of bird song has some referenced information on Molothrus ater's unusual song. ---Sluzzelin talk  14:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC) the length —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.248.202.146 (talk) 20:02, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Hannon
Hello 8.9.87.165. I have reverted you again. The source explains this and I previously added a WP:SECONDARY to support Hannon. Invasive Spices (talk) 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
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