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Help with ID:
GoldwingerTX

Help with ID:

Help with ID.
This black color bird come in and leaves with one of my Green Jay.
The Green Jay will go to the feeder and feed, but the black color bird just
sets and waits till the Green Jay flies off then it fly off with the Green Jay.
The closest I see is a Brown-headed or Bronzed Cowbird, but there is no
brown or orange eye.


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Habitat
yard
Location
Mission, TX
Date taken
8/23/2016
delia todd
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Opus Editor
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An interesting time you're having with these two guys CM.

I'm glad KC has come up with an ID for you.
 
Stanley Jones
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Juvenile Bronzed Cowbirds do not have orange eyes. The behavior you describe sounds right, this Green Jay is likely its surrogate parent. Anyway, its a theory (lol). Nice observation and picture and TFS CM!!!
 
GoldwingerTX
Thanks to all, I will now call it a Bronzed Cowbird.

The eye was the reason I didn't know it was a Cowbird.
 

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