Adult male © Jack & Holly Bartholmai eBird S42423037 Macaulay Library ML 84247171
Female © Jonathan Irons
Juvenile © Sean Fitzgerald
Immature male © Linda Lewis
Juvenile (with Chipping Sparrow) © Christophe Buidin
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Adult male © Ryan Sanderson
Adult male © Andrew Simon
Female © Emily Turteltaub Nelson
Adult male © Ann Tanner
Adult male and female © Nick Pulcinella
Habitat © Amiel Hopkins

Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

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Identification

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Stout bill. Short tail and stocky body. Males are glossy black with chocolate brown head. Females are gray-brown overall, without bold streaks, but slightly paler throat. Juveniles streaked brown. Found in open woods, farmland, and stockyards. Forages by walking on the ground. Often in flocks with other blackbirds in winter. Visits feeders. Unpopular due to their parasitic habit of laying eggs in nests of other birds.

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