The word cowbird has bothered me for a long time.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4] Reference

"You know there is a bird called the cowbird or cuckoo, and that bird is too lazy to build a nest for itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Wiggily's Travels] Reference

Did you know that the Northern Cardinal often raises cowbird young?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

I went out for a walk down the lane and shot a cowbird off the fence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stillwater] Reference

One of my friends compares Israel's policies to that of the American cowbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present] Reference

Now the oil boom is back and I fear it will be a cowbird. anybody know about cowbirds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » How to Build a World Class City] Reference

“Female visual displays affect the development of male song in the cowbird,” Nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

The American cowbird doesn't build a nest of its own; it lays its egg in other birds 'nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present] Reference

I have been watching a pair of cardinals parenting a baby cowbird at my bird feeders recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Animals Adopt: Lessons of Love and Adoptive Stewardship] Reference

And I guess that cowbird was ashamed, but I'm not sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Wiggily's Travels] Reference

Every cowbird is reared at the expense of two or more song-birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

The cowbird belongs to the family of birds scientifically known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

The photo yesterday is of a real living cowbird and is not plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brookville Daily Photo] Reference

Also, apparently I have a brown headed cowbird taking over my feeder!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

But little thought or care does mother cowbird waste upon her offspring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

The male cowbird looks like a well-dressed gentleman -- and may have even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

It is surprising how many species are imposed on successfully by the cowbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

Behold! it was a young cowbird that had been fed by the devoted little mother!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

Readers of VERBATIM ought, by now, to be developing some affection for the cowbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference

The female cowbird sits all day long atop a tree watching other species building nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Union - All Categories] Reference

It was certainly too small to accommodate any tenants besides the strapping young cowbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

The young of the cowbird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

But this baby, unfortunately for the "wisdom of the wise," did not resemble the cowbird family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

A young cowbird that I purloined from the nest and tried to rear by hand did not prove a pleasant pet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

And just then there was a fluttering and a rustling in the bushes, and the bad cowbird came flying past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Wiggily's Travels] Reference

"Now show me which are the eggs of the cowbird?" said the kittie-cat to the robin when the nest was reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Wiggily's Travels] Reference

And one fat cowbird remarked with a smirk that it was too bad they hadn't brought the children along to help.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales] Reference

It was reported some time after my article on the cowbird was first published in Appleton's "Popular Science Monthly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

Instead, those nasty house sparrows have inhabited one of my handsome cedar boxes, along with a parasitic cowbird egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

Probably they are -- at least to a greater or less degree -- except one, the bay-winged cowbird of South America, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

Our commonest species was the parasitic cowbird, which laid its eggs anywhere in the nests of all the other small birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

Not sure if I'm correct with the bird identification, but this pretty one reminds me of a female brown-headed cowbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference

Again, standing within ten feet of him, I noticed the young bird's points, and again I was convinced that he was not a cowbird baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

In most cases the number is two, but in the case of ground builders the cowbird seems to have little fear of overdoing her imposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

There is no doubt that, in many cases, the cowbird makes room for her own illegitimate egg in the nest by removing one of the bird's own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference