Bird behavior question?

Question

I somewhat doubt I'll get a good answer to this question but, there is a small bird that I see frequently. It looks to be an adult and is able to fly. However, the bird will persistently pester other birds, some which are clearly of other species, and they will regurgitate and feed him. I thought this was only done with chicks?

Answer 1

Although the Brown Headed Cowbird theory is plausible, you should also consider the fact that there are hundreds of species of birds in which the immature of the species display plumage that can differ greatly from the mature specimens of the same species, not to mention the differences in plumage between male and female. Get a good field guide and keep looking for more clues.

Answer 2

This sounds like it may be a cowbird fledgling. (a young bird that is still learning to fly and forage) Brown-headed cowbirds lay their eggs in other species nests and let the other bird raise their young. These baby birds are bigger and more aggressive than the host birds and usually end up being the only survivor of the nest. Once they leave the nest the adult has a hard time keeping them fed as they have a much bigger appetite than their own chicks would, so I often see these babies begging any bird they see for food. Most birds will go ahead and feed them as it is instinctual....they see a begging bird...they feed it, whether or not they have their own babies to feed.

Answer 3

Sounds like a brown headed cowbird. The female cowbird lays eggs in other bird's nest and the other species of bird hatches, feeds, and cares for the cowbird. The cowbird is more aggressive than most other birds so the cowbird chick often outcompetes the caretaker birds real offspring.

Answer 4

It is some thing that is done by the baby birds. He is still a baby, even if he can fly. Most chicks still after the can first fly will still be fed my their parent birds. I have watched the birds in my tree often and seen this happen.

Answer 5

Cowbirds and yellow billed cuckoos are parasitic birds. In other words, they find small birds to raise their young. They accomplish this by getting rid of all the smaller bird's eggs/chicks and deposit their own egg in the nest. The smaller birds, being the wonderful parents that they are, raise the parasitic bird to adulthood.

Answer 6

in view that it is your place, this chicken would have seen you there in the previous and mentioned you no longer doing something threatening. whilst it got here closer and perched, it could basically have been curious on the subject of the rocking motions. Many birds are extremely sensible, as shown by making use of extremely some experiments, besides the indisputable fact that i'm no longer conscious of any carried out particularly with owls. It waited to be certain what you will possibly do. You remained nevertheless for awhile, made no threatening strikes, and once you probably did pass, it became no longer in direction of the chicken as though to attack it, so it curiously observed no would desire to sprint off. in basic terms once you moved in direction of your chair, and probable in direction of the chicken, did it start to think of consistent with possibility you could pose attainable, and so flew off. probable you weren't making any exciting rocking motions by making use of that factor the two, so it wasn't curious anymore the two. Now, in case you had shouted, gesticulated wildly, or lunged at it, as in case you have been attempting to hit it, i'm going to guess it would have flown away faster. Owls are predators, so they might desire to be extremely clever critters. even though it would desire to be certain weren't attempting to attack. Rhythmic strikes like rocking are used to lull extremely few animals, like snakes (think of of those Indian snake charmers, rocking from section to section as they play some form of flute that a snake probable can no longer pay attention), mothers rocking little ones to sleep, and that i've got used comparable strikes to calm a worried domestic dog for the duration of thunderstorms. i think of it incredibly is the indisputable fact that it incredibly is sluggish, gentle, and repetitive as unfavorable to surprising, unpredictable, and jerky strikes, that beasties of any type discover soothing -- and exciting.

Answer 7

the bird seems still to be a juvenile and the parents are still feeding of surrogate parents are feeding