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Large flocks of blackbirds7/14/2023 Females, on the other hand, are dull gray-brown.Ĭowbirds got their name because they like to follow buffaloes and cattle around in order to eat insects and other small animals that are disturbed by large animals. If you see a warbler or other small bird in California feeding a young bird twice its size, you can be sure that it’s raising a Cowbird.Īdult male Brown-headed Cowbirds have a chocolate-brown head and a glossy black body. Most hosts incubate the Cowbird eggs and raise the resulting nestlings as if they were their own. Only a few of the host birds targeted by Cowbirds identify the parasitic eggs as alien, and abandon them. A brood parasite is a bird that doesn’t build its own nest, but instead lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.īrown-headed Cowbirds have been reported to lay their eggs in the nests of hundreds of other bird species. The Brown-headed Cowbird is a brood parasite in California. Now let’s dive into the details, and take a closer look at each of these species in order to get the full scoop: Brown-headed CowbirdĬowbirds also belong to the blackbird family, but differ in one key characteristic: they are brood parasites. Yet other birds are winter visitors in California, and some are vagrants that only rarely occur in the state of California. While many of these black birds are year round residents of California, others only occur in the state during the nesting season in summer. The 19 types of black birds found in California are: What types of black birds can you see in California? To help you identify the bird you saw, we’ll cover all the blackbird species that can be seen in California, as well as other types of black-colored birds. Identifying black birds is not as easy as it might seem, since there are many bird species in California that are either completely black or partially black. 1.4 What are the biggest black birds in California?ĭid you recently come across a black bird in California, and would like to know what species it was?
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