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Shiny cowbird (with host chalk-browed mockingbird)

Molothrus bonariensis (with Mimus saturninus)

Description:

•They eat insects and seeds. •They are brood-parasites, laying the eggs in nests of many other bird species. •They lay 4 or 5 eggs, one in the nest of each host.

Habitat:

Fields, pastures, parks, gardens -I saw these birds in Foz do Iguaçu (PR, Brazil)

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BrunoMoller
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BrunoMoller

Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Oct 15, 2015
Submitted on Mar 25, 2016

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