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- noun Plural form of
cowbird .
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Examples
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UF study first to document evidence of 'mafia' behavior in cowbirds
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Uh, cowbirds used to be very scarce in North America and with our habitat fragmentation their populations have just boomed and the only place that small songbirds like warblers can lay their eggs to get away from these parasitic cowbirds is deep in the forest.
A Promise 2006
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The cowbirds were the first to leave the sylvan roof tree.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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The findings are particularly striking because so many birds seem to be unable to recognize the chicks of species such as cowbirds and cuckoos, which always lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The findings are particularly striking because so many birds seem to be unable to recognize the chicks of species such as cowbirds and cuckoos, which always lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The findings are particularly striking because so many birds seem to be unable to recognize the chicks of species such as cowbirds and cuckoos, which always lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Last weekend I shot 18+ cowbirds, a crow, and 5+ pigions.
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Jim LaCour said that the grackles, starlings, brown-headed cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds had broken beaks and backs.
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The birds — a mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings — may have hit a power line or vehicles in the dark, LaCour said.
Louisiana has mass bird deaths just days after Arkansas 2011
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Last weekend I shot 18+ cowbirds, a crow, and 5+ pigions.
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