YAKIMA, Wash. -- The brown-headed cowbird is bad news for other songbirds because it lays its eggs in the nest of other birds and takes no part in incubating its eggs or raising the young. This ...

Cowbirds also closely follow livestock and catch insects disturbed by the large animals’ movements and feed upon seeds that ...

Iceland has enjoyed a spectacular trio of North American vagrants in late October 2025, with a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, ...

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Thorington, K. K., Bowman, R., and Fleischer, Robert C. 2007. "Molothrus ater (Brown-headed Cowbird) lays egg in artificial nest in highlands County, Florida ...