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This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ... leaving just three finch eggs in the nest. The intrusive cowbird youngster would not be able to hijack the finch family after all.

Discover how long baby birds stay in the nest, how long it takes bird eggs to hatch, how baby birds learn to fly and more ...

These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ... leaving just three finch eggs in the nest. The intrusive cowbird youngster would not be able to hijack the finch family after all.

Sometimes, perhaps most times, we go through life seeing but not noticing or taking note. This thought occurred to me once ...

The female cowbird lays ... is the brown-headed cowbird. The female cowbird lays its eggs in the ... feed the nestlings and continue to feed the young cowbirds after they’re out of the nest.

European starlings, an invasive species in the U.S., lay blue eggs often mistaken for those of bluebirds or robins. Unlike native birds, starlings outcompete local species and are not protected by ...