How To Use cowbird In A Sentence
- ‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
- With the clearing of forests and the spread of farming, the cowbird's range expanded north and east.
- Future research should focus on such traits of cowbird relatives and on how these traits preadapted a particular lineage to become parasites.
- Bronzed Cowbirds perform spectacular three-part courtship displays incorporating both of their major categories of song.
- Cowbirds inhabit most parts of North America, and they have been reported to parasitize many different species in almost any type of habitat.
- Fitness costs vary greatly among host species in part because cowbirds parasitize host species at widely divergent frequencies, even among hosts breeding in the same habitat.
- Rothstein said that since most songbirds only sing, he suspects the cowbirds learned to sing before they started to dance.
- Warbling Vireo nests that are parasitized by cowbirds typically produce no vireo young.
- To address that, we experimentally parasitized longspur nests with real and wooden cowbird eggs to determine whether longspurs eject cowbird eggs.
- Parasitic cuckoos, cowbirds and weavers lay many more eggs per season than their non-parasitic relatives.
