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Brown-headed Cowbirds These are either female or juvenile Males have Brown Heads... Fact: The Brown-headed Cowbird is a stocky blackbird with a fascinating approach to raising its young. Females forgo building nests and instead put all their energy into producing eggs, sometimes more than three dozen a summer. These they lay in the nests of other birds, abandoning their young to foster parents, usually at the expense of at least some of the host’s own chicks. -allaboutbirds.org | Critter Cam

Experience a close-up acoustic portrait of the **brown-headed cowbird song** like you’ve never seen it — filmed in 4K on an old oak where the male perches and delivers warm, bubbling warbles. This reels visual vignette highlights not only the liquid-sounding series of gurgling notes and thin sliding whistles that characterize the **brown-headed cowbird call**, but also subtle throat motion and the delicate feather quiver that gives the vocalization visual rhythm. If you love bird acoustics, fiel