Mister Cardinal Is Fed Up With Cowbirds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- The full story of the cowbird saga
is at: • Brown Headed Cowbird P... Song Sparrow parents raised 3 Brown Headed Cowbird parasites and at the time of these video clips Mister Cardinal had just about had enough of the song sparrow's peculiarly annoying parasite family! Either the song sparrow parents were ferrying food back to their giant nestlings or shoveling precious food into a ginormous parasite fledgling's gaping mouth or the rotund fledglings were just parked in the way taking up space on his favorite platform, In any case Mr Cardinal had to put his foot - I mean “beak” down. Which I'm sure left a mark.
The desperate need to feed their mammoth kids lead the song sparrow parents to try and stand up to the cardinal with predictable results.
And the fledglings being the true parasite slackers they were showed no respect for Mr Angry Bird leading to an ill-advised confrontation that probably left an indelible mark on the cowbird.
I love this look on the fledgling experiencing rejection and discipline for the first time in its young life.
Of course this was just too much cowbird for Mr. cardinal to bear so I spread more food around to different places so they could eat in peace.
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Here is the link to the video "Brown Headed Cowbird Parasites Raised by Song Sparrows" that goes into more detail: th-cam.com/video/5b-NfCj4Fmk/w-d-xo.html
I feel sorry for the parents suckered into caring for the cowbird babies, but those cowbird babies are cute.
They are cute, but get on Mr Cardinals nerves!
Yeah that’s how I feel too. It sucks for the parents that get suckered into it; and also for their actual chicks that they were intending on raising. But the cowbird baby is really cute and makes me feel sorry for him. Haha MBYB said it though- he got on mr.cardinals nerves; he wasn’t having any of it! 😂.
Cardinals can really maim if they want to. Can't they? @@MyBackyardBirding
I despise cowbirds so much. Mr. Cardinal is my hero! Thanks for sharing this amazing footage.
Glad you enjoyed it! BB
Cowbirds can’t help it. They are just doing what they know to do. They only thing they know to do. They are not trying to be malicious. They are actually quite beautiful and have an interesting chirp. ✌🏻
@@ejvr99true, but actually bird collisions into glass is the number one threat to birds. I learned this from a Cornell University bird webinar. Also look up Yale University 2023 Bird Safe city design pdf (just released this summer)
Something i found interesting about cowbirds is that, according to people who raised cowbirds with canaries, cowbirds don't know that they are cowbirds until they see another cowbird. As far as that baby is concerned he probably thinks he's a song sparrow.
Haha the life of a bird seems so crazy, poor cowbird chick looked upset after, thanks for sharing and for the play by play! I could hear the cowbird chick in the background during one of the interactions with the cardinal and the sparrow, so he definitely was wanting to feed that mammoth baby 😂.I love cardinals they’re so beautiful and cute, but I did find myself feeling sorry for the cowbird chick. It’s a complicated situation with parasitic birds. Also, I must not have imagined the upset look on the chick haha because you showed the exact two frames I was thinking of when I said it and summed up the look perfectly.
We saw sparrows raising a baby abandoned grackle once. It is very strange to see a tiny bird trying to feed a baby at least twice his size. They make great attentive parents.
They are sweet birds. BB
English sparrows are sweet??
Cardinals at my feeder chase away all birds.
Chipmunks at my feeder chase away many birds but the ones who stay are the squirrels, rabbits, crows and blue jays.
My cardinals will tolerate other birds as long as they get their space and their share but have a short fuse.
I find the males of all of the larger birds (cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, grosbeak) will chase away smaller birds at the feeder. Females tend to be more tolerant.
Mr. Cardinal is tough when he has to be. Lol I also have to say how funny it is that we all refer to a Cardinal pair as Mr. and Mrs. 😊
Great video wow cardinals usually so easy going, but obviously had enough 😅😂
We love cardinals… the regulators baby…
This made me go feed my cardi babies some seeds. You go little regulator!
The look on the cowbird’s face after like “I guess you’re not my mom” 💀🤣
He gave him the what for 😂😂😂😂
The chick doesn’t know it’s a ‘parasite’. It’s just trying to survive, like everyone else.
Where the red bellied woodpeckers at? 😏
We got about 10 or so hummingbirds dogfighting around three feeders most days, it's funny watching them all do thier impressive one of a kind maneuvers.
Yes, this is the season for hummingbird action - I have 5 feeders with 40 ports but no hummer will share a feeder at the same time. Fascinating birds! BB
I have red bellys
I have also seen similar action by male Cardinals at my feeders.
Amazing footage!
Those poor cowbird fledglings. I kinda feel bad for them. Momma just goes and lays an egg and splits. Kinda sucks. I wish the “host” birds would realize there was an extra egg and be able to tell which one it was. 😢
Yeah, the cowbird chicks are just trying to find their way in life.
the whole situation is horrible. Then the fledglings grow up and do the same thing because they never had a good example of parenting. I love watching the parent birds taking care of their babies and the cowbird fledglings sadden me.
Some bird species actually DO recognize the egg and remove it! Look it up…I can’t recall but I’m 99% sure I learned this last year on a documentary. I’m going to research it again myself again now 😊
Cardinals are known to recognize a cowbird egg and toss it from the nest or destroy it. But the mother cowbird will actually monitor the nest it laid in and if it ever realuzes the egg was rejected, it'll destroy the other eggs in the nest.
@@awrinkleintimeyesterday6067It's not a lack of example. The bird that DOES raise them would be example enough. It's just instinct. They're driven to do it the way they do it and it can't be helped at all.
These videos are so crystal clear, they're leagues beyond the very best National Geographic-style nature shows we saw as kids. It's so stunning that I don't have adequate words.
Maybe 'quantum leap' would be a good descriptor.
Thank you so much - it is amazing what even relatively cheap cameras can do now! BB
Really spectacular footage and images! Love the still shot at 1:20, that's an amazing photo!
Thank you!
I don't hate cowbirds, they're doing what they have to, to survive. Cowbirds are obligate brood parasites and would simply die out if they didn't do it. But it's also perfectly understandable why the cardinals hate them. Cardinals are one of the few targeted birds that seem savvy to what's happening and will reject the egg or chick.
I'VE SEEN MALES DO THIS,,,VERY BOSSY BUT HANDSOME
VERY NICE BIRDS
Thanks i watched your documentation of the song sparrow feeding the parasite babies.. amazing, what study it takes to see the myriad activity where every bird counts in the game. ML! alsp just watched the blue jay songs, there was a warblr & a tanager hanging out behind the star jay! . what a lovely place you have! ps. confession i have a soft spot (sorta) for the cowbird lol. it's the burble. it's awsm (edit: bet those poor moms that get the cowbirds can benefit greatly from what we sometimes call Mother's little helper 🤣🤣. I'm sure God has provided for them.
Thanks, and yes the cowbird chicks are adorable in their own way. BB
Thrilling! 👍
Ugh. It’s hard to accept that cowbirds and cuckoos do what they do.
I feel sorry for the cow bird chick. It's just being itself. Can't help that its entire species decided to lay their eggs in other birds' nest.
Peace friends, peace 👏🥰💕
Hopefully there’s another spot of food for the cowbirds!
Had to spread more food around for the regular birds. The cowbirds would just sit on the deck if "mom" song Sparrow was avoiding them.
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Just a thought to share: with feeding wildlife, you give these Song Sparrows the means to successful feed 3 parasitic birds that are way bigger then themselves, would they be able to do so without extra food? And in this way, does this upset the balance with more Cowbirds around?
they fail more often to parasitize than succeeding
I think they would wear themselves out to feed the chicks no matter what and probably then be too worn out to then raise a brood of their own after that. It seems the cowbirds only impact the first brood early in the season.
@@MyBackyardBirding that is very interesting, so these cowbirds "found a way" to keep the balance themselves.
Thank you for this response!
If there's not enough food, the cowbird, being larger and more demanding, WILL starve its "siblings" by taking all the food for itself. But moreover, cowbirds are parasites but they aren't "bad". They're native and a natural part of the ecosystem that they're in, and no action should EVER be taken to try to reduce their number, and would be illegal regardless. The birds the cowbirds parasitize are abundant as well and won't die out due to cowbirds.
lol
This was really good!
Thanks! BB
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Some unnecessary things are necessary.
I hate cowbirds they are such nasty birds
what US state is this ?
North Carolina
parasite life ? A bird is a parasite?
There is a pinned comment and info in description to bring you up to speed on the saga of the brown headed cowbird.
Thank you . @@MyBackyardBirding
How is the cowbird parasitic? I mean, why is its feeding behavior considered parasitic, and not just its normal way of feeding?
Here is the complete video that goes into more detail th-cam.com/video/5b-NfCj4Fmk/w-d-xo.html BB