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Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

4/22/202612 min

There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.

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Clips

Why Cowbirds Seem 'Jerky'
How Do They Stay Cowbirds?
From Bison Birds To Cowbirds
Hosts Fight Back, Cartoon-Style
Bison Gone, Behavior Stays

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First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  2. Charles W. (Chuck) Bryant· Host0:03

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  3. Josh Clark· Host0:55

    [upbeat music] Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and this is a short stuff, which is why I realize now that I started this off incorrectly short stuff. Let's go.

  4. Charles W. (Chuck) Bryant· Host1:10

    That's right. Big thanks to Britannica, Yellowstone Wild Tours, California Department of Fish, Wildlife, New Hampshire Audubon, and Audubon- [laughs] -for information about the ground-headed... Brown? Ground?

  5. Josh Clark· Host1:21

    Yeah.

  6. Charles W. (Chuck) Bryant· Host1:21

    Brown-headed cowbird.

  7. Josh Clark· Host1:22

    Thanks to Yumi too. She brought this bird to my attention.

  8. Charles W. (Chuck) Bryant· Host1:25

    Oh, I forgot. Yumi.org.

  9. Josh Clark· Host1:27

    [laughs] Um, so Chuck, we're talking

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