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1. Cowbirds Use Mafia Tactics and Farming Behavior as Part of Their Parasitic Racket.

Author

Hoover, Jeff

Subjects
BIRD behavior, HOSTS (Biology), ANIMAL behavior, ORNITHOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, AVIARIES
Abstract

The article discusses the characteristic behavior of birds, called hosts, who accept eggs not of their own and do the brooding and bringing up of the chicks. Aviary enthusiasts have made studies of this at the Cache River watershed in southern Illinois from 1996-2002 with a nesting host, Prothonotary Warbler and parasite eggs of Brown-headed Cowbird through attached nest-boxes on trees. Acceptance rate of cowbird parasitism was observed to be around 80 percent.

Published
2009

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