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Molothrus rufoaxillaris
The "Screaming Cowbird" is a specialist brood parasite, parasitizing almost exclusively the "Bay-winged Cowbird" ("Agelaioides badius"). This host-parasitic relationship was first realized on 12 April 1873 by W. H. Hudson (1874, 1920) when he collected, from a flock of "Bay-winged Cowbirds", young "Screaming Cowbirds", which were molting from their "Bay-winged" juvenile plumage to the "Screaming Cowbird" adult plumage.
Bolivia to Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Pastureland, towns, scrubby areas, and heavily degraded former forest.
I found this specimen on a train track
love the textures - you don't have to have colour to look interesting and beautiful !
Spotted on Jan 12, 2013
Submitted on Jan 14, 2013
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