Brown-headed Cowbirds Photo Gallery by Tom Grey at pbase.com

Brown-headed Cowbirds

These birds are best known for nest parasitism, laying their eggs in the nests of birds of other species; this is illustrated in the photos at the bottom of this gallery, with Dark-eyed Juncos as the victimized species.

Brown-headed Cowbird, male	Brown-headed Cowbird, female	Brown-headed Cowbird	Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird, male	Brown-headed Cowbird, male	Brown-headed Cowbird, female	Brown-headed Cowbird, female
Brown-headed Cowbird, female	Brown-headed Cowbird, molting juvenile male	Brown-headed Cowbird, juvenile	Brown-headed Cowbird, juvenile
Brown-headed Cowbird, juvenile	Brown-headed Cowbird and Red-winged Blackbird	Brown-headed Cowbird nestling, in junco nest, June 29, 2015	Brown-headed Cowbird nestling, in junco nest, June 29, 2015
Brown-headed Cowbird nestling, in junco nest	Brown-headed Cowbird chick begging from Junco, 2008	Begging cowbird chick fed by Junco, 2008	Brown-headed Cowbird chicks fed by Dark-eyed Junco, June 14, 2016

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