How does the cowbird learn to sing the right song and find the right mate? No one knows the answer. These are just a few of the mysteries of the cowbird world and some of the most interesting ...

Now, a new paper describes how the cowbird chicks may learn to recognize and sing their own species' songs. "We kind of opened the paper with this existential question," said Sarah London ...

How does the cowbird learn to sing the right song and find the right mate? The answer is, no one knows. These are just a few of the mysteries of the cowbird world and I think the most interesting ...

Numerous studies show reproductive losses for individual host species, and therefore it has long been assumed that cowbird parasitism can result in changes in songbird communities. Surprisingly the De ...