Located about a foot above the ground a few feet from the house.

Interesting- "The Brown-headed Cowbird is a North American brood parasite, meaning that it lays its eggs in the nests of other species,"

Question: "How did you get the cowbird egg out? We have the same thing!! 3 little house finch eggs and a cow bird egg in our wreath on the front porch. Did your cow bird egg hatch and kill the other five?"

Answer: "Hi Haley, Brown-headed Cowbirds are native, and therefore it is against federal law to remove their eggs from a nest without a federal permit. You may be pleased to know that House Finches are one of the few species that feed their young a mostly vegetarian diet, and because cowbird young need insects to grow strong, they typically do very poorly in House Finch nests. If you find cowbirds eggs in a nest, it’s best to leave them be."

https://nestwatch.org/connect/...st-with-cowbird-egg/

Huh. Interesting about the vegetarian diet. The rest I was aware of, but I sure hope the little guy’s outcompete the cowbird.

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Brown-headed Cowbirds are native, and therefore it is against federal law to remove their eggs from a nest without a federal permit.

Do they issue federal permits to swat mosquitos? How much does Cowbird-egg-removal-permit-issuing pay? Benefits any good?

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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Brown-headed Cowbirds are native, and therefore it is against federal law to remove their eggs from a nest without a federal permit.

Do they issue federal permits to swat mosquitos? How much does Cowbird-egg-removal-permit-issuing pay? Benefits any good?

If you didn't say anything, how would the Feds know?

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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Brown-headed Cowbirds are native, and therefore it is against federal law to remove their eggs from a nest without a federal permit.

Do they issue federal permits to swat mosquitos? How much does Cowbird-egg-removal-permit-issuing pay? Benefits any good?

Federal egg-removing laws do not pertain to nests located in my yard.

Most likely I will leave it alone and monitor it every week or so.

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Cowbirds are known to monitor the nests and if the egg disappeared there is a fifty percent chance they will destroy the nest. I suppose if the egg fell into a cup of hot water for several minutes and got placed back in the nest the cowbird wouldn’t know. Now that overt action is certainly something I would never do.

Protected or not, cowbirds are an abundant pest.


https://www.allaboutbirds.org/...ded_Cowbird/overview

I think the eggs/larger babies can be a threat to the host nest. That’s not an issue with a common field sparrow, more a threat to a rare warbler.

If I was sure of the cowbird egg, I’d have no problem removing it. In the larger scheme of things, peeing in the ocean.

It would be best to remove the cowbird egg. The chick will kill the other eggs.

My cousin has a state wildlife “exemption” (I think it’s called) for his ranch land. One provision is that he must trap and kill cowbirds.

I’m told they used to follow buffalo herds, eating the bugs stirred by the beasts. The birds would move through an area, lay a few eggs then move on following the buffalos causing little damage to native birds. Now, with no buffalo herds on the move, the Cowbirds stay in one place and do significant damage to local bird populations.

Here..... hatch this for me.

Off beat sci-fi film starts out with cuckoo egg in a nest.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming...in-vivarium-trailer/

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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Brown-headed Cowbirds are native, and therefore it is against federal law to remove their eggs from a nest without a federal permit.

Do they issue federal permits to swat mosquitos? How much does Cowbird-egg-removal-permit-issuing pay? Benefits any good?

Federal egg-removing laws do not pertain to nests located in my yard.

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