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List of brood parasitic passerines

List of brood parasitic passerines

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This is the list of the brood parasites in order Passeriformes, the perching birds. Instead of making nests of their own, and feeding their young, brood parasites deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.[1]

Cuckoo finch at Polokwane, Limpopo
Village indigobird
Female pin tailed whydah at Johannesburg Botanical Garden
Female long tailed paradise whydah
Female shiny cowbird
Brown-headed cowbird

Note that the vampire finch is a parasite, but is not brood parasitic.[2]

Species

References

  1. [1]
    David Attenborough (1998) [1998]. The Life of Birds. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-691-01633-X.
  2. [2]
    Schluter, Dolph; Grant, Peter R. (1984). "Ecological Correlates of Morphological Evolution in a Darwin's Finch, Geospiza difficilis" (PDF). Evolution. 38 (4): 856–869. doi:10.2307/2408396. hdl:2027.42/137395. JSTOR 2408396.
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