When a female cowbird is ready to have a baby, she’ll stake out another bird’s nest, wait until the coast is clear, then slip ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

Q: I watched a beautiful male cardinal feeding an all-brown bird on the roof of my garage. Why would it feed another species? A: That’s a great observation and it indicates how different young ...

More information: Juan Diego Ibáñez‐Álamo et al, Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown, Ecology Letters (2025). DOI ...

Colorful birds thrive in cities, according to new research. Avian species that do well in urban areas have feathers of a more ...

To the “horrid brown bird” hater. It is a limpkin which eats apple snails. Several species of the apple snails are invasive in Florida. So, this bird helps our natural environment.

Brown-headed cowbirds are hard to love. They aren’t pretty or melodious. And worst of all, they’re deadbeat parents, tricking other birds into rearing their young.

Colourful city birds Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colorful and less brown Date: April 9, 2025 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ...