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Cowbird (female)

Molothrus ater

Photo by momsavang
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Medium sized bird, dull colors compared to the male who has a dark black body and brown head. Known to be aggressive at feeders. They also will place their own eggs in other birds nests for other birds to raise.

Habitat:

west central ga

Notes:

this one got a bit concussed after hitting the window. It was able to fly off on its on later.

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Species ID Suggestions

Brown-headed Cowbird

Molothrus ater

Comments (3)

Thank you jazz.man! I forgot to come back here and do identifiers!

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