How to Use cowbird in a Sentence

cowbird

noun

• But the cowbird eggs managed to crack their hosts’ eggs about 10 times as often.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 8 May 2018
• The red-wingeds won’t stay too long, but some cowbirds will linger in your neighborhood.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 16 Feb. 2018
• According to Audubon, their open nests are easy to find with cowbirds often laying eggs in them.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
• In pre-settlement times, the cowbird followed herds of bison in the shortgrass prairies of the central U.S., picking seeds out of their dung.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2019
• That scene is what prompted me to investigate cowbirds a while back.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2019
• Sometimes, yellow warblers try to prevent the birds from coming back by building a new floor over the cowbird eggs and laying a new clutch of their own.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
• Typically, the cowbird egg would hatch first, and the larger chick would outcompete the smaller vireo chicks for food—or simply push them out of the nest.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022
• The one-two punch of fire suppression and cowbird parasitism drove Kirtland's numbers down.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2019
• The researchers wanted to see what effect the females' new, lax attitude would have in cowbird society.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2013
• Federal and state officials, for example, have broken the necks of thousands of cowbirds to save the warbler, a songbird once on the brink of extinction.
  — Phuong Le, The Know, 19 Oct. 2019
• Such brood parasitism has arisen independently at least three times, in the groups known as cuckoos, cowbirds and honeyguides.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Bronzed cowbirds, metallic black with eyes and otherworldly red.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• Once all the birds in the sample population had laid, the researchers went around adding and removing eggs from nests to see whether having a certain number of cowbird eggs affected mockingbird survival.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2011
• Decoys or food lure cowbirds inside, where they're euthanized.
  — John Flesher, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• By planting new young jack pine forest and implementing a cowbird removal program, conservation managers helped the warblers begin to recover their numbers.
  — Wendy Mitman Clarke, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2017
• Researchers studying yellow warbler responses to the parasitic cowbird realized that red-winged blackbirds were eavesdropping and reacting too.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2020
• The cowbird expanded its territory naturally, but people introduced the whydah.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 29 June 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024