How to pronounce“cowbirds”in English

Cowbirds, I’m begging you. Standards.

This might explain why birds like cowbirds and cuckoos can lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and successfully pass along their parenting duties to entirely different species!

Cowbirds like brushy habitat and woodland edges, which crop up as we bulldoze forests to make room for more houses.

And by spreading their eggs across multiple baskets, I mean nests, cowbirds might be able to persist in a variety of weather situations.