Suggested alternate names include Lazy Bird, Cuckold, Cow-pen Bird, Buffalo Bird or the Brown-headed Oriole. I know of no one else able to make reading long articles on birds such a fascinating ...

In last week’s column, mention was made of an unusual observation by Jan Rush of Egypt, who videotaped what she thought was a male cardinal “courting” a female cowbird. The redbird offered food to it, ...

The house finch attempting its second nesting atop the decorative wreath on my front porch has been incubating the eggs for the past week or so. Her first clutch hatched about three weeks ago but one ...

The brown-headed cowbird is one of the most hated birds in the entirety of the animal kingdom. Each springtime, when most birds are settling down to build their nests, the cowbird is sneakily plotting ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Brown-headed cowbirds are generalist brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of many other bird species and letting the host parents raise their young. A new study seeks to ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

This is the story of three bird species and how they interact. The brown-headed cowbird lays its eggs in other birds' nests and lets them raise its young -- often at the expense of the host's ...

Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving all the hard work of incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks to somebody else ...

Brown-headed cowbirds are generalist brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of many other bird species and letting the host parents raise their young. A new study seeks to understand the ...