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    Communities > Forums > Bird Identification
    Forum: Bird IdentificationReplies: 11, Views: 138
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    adelbertcat
    Klamath River, CA

    July 10, 2007 12:05 AM

    Post #3716569

    a cow bird running with the Blackbirds, or a female Brewer's?

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    adelbertcat
    Klamath River, CA

    July 10, 2007 12:06 AM

    Post #3716573

    #2

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    adelbertcat
    Klamath River, CA

    July 10, 2007 12:08 AM

    Post #3716578

    #3

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    David_Vermont
    Orwell, VT

    July 10, 2007 12:36 AM

    Post #3716678

    I believe that the lighter colored bird is a female cowbird and the rest are males.

    IrisLover79
    Westchester, IL (Zone 5b)

    July 10, 2007 5:24 AM

    Post #3717736

    I don't know about the lighter one, but the males look like brown-headed cowbirds to me. But, I'm no expert. Where's Resin? lol. ;P

    ~Kris

    Resin

    Resin
    Northumberland
    United Kingdom (Zone 9a)

    July 10, 2007 10:06 AM

    Post #3717988

    Yep, they're all Brown-headed Cowbirds. Note the short, thick bills compared to Brewer's, and the dark brown heads of the males.

    Quoting:Where's Resin? lol. ;P

    At 5:24 a.m., sound asleep!

    Resin
    tgif
    Starkville, MS

    July 10, 2007 5:00 PM

    Post #3719183

    I highly dislike Cowbirds!!!! They do not build nests - they lay an egg here and an egg there in other bird's nests. The parent birds expend *major* energy and food feeding the baby cowbird which is usually larger than the actual genetic babies. I have lost many Wrens, Bluebirds, and even Cardinals to this *mooch*!!!! The parent bird will feed whatever is in the nest. The cowbird babies are much more aggressive and tend to get the bulk of the food thereby surviving better than the parent's real offspring.
    pelletory
    Marlton, NJ

    July 10, 2007 5:31 PM

    Post #3719328

    Yes, their brood parasites but at least their native. Although not good, there are much worse birds than these.
    tgif
    Starkville, MS

    July 10, 2007 6:00 PM

    Post #3719468

    You got that right!
    IrisLover79
    Westchester, IL (Zone 5b)

    July 11, 2007 7:26 AM

    Post #3722474

    Quoting: At 5:24 a.m., sound asleep!


    Well, now we know that DG displays your local time for everyone's posts. I posted that at 12:24 am, Chicago time. Not that late for me, hehe. Guess I'm 5 hours behind UK time. Time zones confuse me. You should've heard my Irish friend yell at me when I called her in the middle of the night. Apparently, I figured out the time difference wrong, oops! :O

    ~Kris... hey, I was right about the cowbirds, though, woo-hoo! LOL! ;P

    Resin

    Resin
    Northumberland
    United Kingdom (Zone 9a)

    July 11, 2007 8:23 AM

    Post #3722495

    Quoting:Well, now we know that DG displays your local time for everyone's posts

    Yep - if it didn't, then you'd get all sorts of funny things happening, like posts being tagged with the day before the previous post, and suchlike!

    Resin
    IrisLover79
    Westchester, IL (Zone 5b)

    July 11, 2007 4:41 PM

    Post #3723705

    Ahhhhhh, that makes sense, lol.

    ~Kris

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    Other Bird Identification Threads you might be interested in:

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    CLOSED: can anybody ID this bird (#2) lilyfantn 15 Dec 12, 2009 2:52 AM
    CLOSED: What is this? konkreteblond 23 Jan 18, 2008 1:39 PM
    CLOSED: Need confirm on ID pelletory 12 Mar 10, 2007 9:25 PM
    CLOSED: Is this? Marilyn_FL 16 Jul 3, 2009 9:15 PM
    CLOSED: This was in a field across from my house in north Jersey ago wilkins2 2 Mar 11, 2007 12:18 PM


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