Comprehensive Description
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Setophaga picta Swainson
On 11 June 1967, E. M. Hall found a nest of the painted redstart containing 3 eggs of the warbler and 1 of the bronzed cowbird at Madera Canyon, Pima County, Arizona. This is the first time this species has been noted as a victim of the bronzed cowbird. It would seem that there cannot be many areas where the breeding ranges of the two species overlap, but they have both been noted (aside from the present record) at Madera Canyon. The painted redstart is one of the few ground-nesting birds affected by the bronzed cowbird.
CHESTNUT-HEADED OROPENDOLA
Zarhynchus wagleri (Gray and Mitchell)
A parasitized nest of this oropendola, found at Kilometer 25, Ocozocoautla-Mal Paso road, Chiapas, 28 April 1972, by Miguel Alvarez del Toro, is the first record for the species as a victim of the bronzed cowbird. The record involves the nominate race of the host and of the parasite.
YELLOW-BILLED CACIQUE
- bibliographic citation
- Friedmann, Herbert, Kiff, Lloyd F., and Rothstein, Stephen I. 1977. "A further contribution of knowledge of the host relations of the parasitic cowbirds." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-75. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.235
