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Shiny cowbird (with host chalk-browed mockingbird)

Molothrus bonariensis (with Mimus saturninus)

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They eat insects and seeds.
•They are brood-parasites, laying the eggs in nests of many other bird species.
•They lay 4 or 5 eggs, one in the nest of each host.

Habitat:

Fields, pastures, parks, gardens
-I saw these birds in Foz do Iguaçu (PR, Brazil)

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