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Jim LaCour said that the grackles, starlings, brown-headed cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds had broken beaks and backs.

Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana 2011

The birds — a mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings — may have hit a power line or vehicles in the dark, LaCour said.

Louisiana has mass bird deaths just days after Arkansas 2011

Habitat loss and nest predation by brown-headed cowbirds are both implicated.

From Twitter 04-28-2010 e_moon60 2010

I have to let him go, my son, my brown-headed son, I have to let him go across the sea into exile, not even knowing when I will see him again.

The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

Blue jays, brown-headed cowbirds, sparrows and titmicen are all crowding in for seed.

Waldo Jaquith - Female cardinal. 2007

Jaguars, spectacled bears, brown-headed spider monkeys, and plate-billed mountain toucans may all just breathe a little easier next week if Ecuadorians approve a new constitution in a referendum on Sunday that would grant these threatened animals 'habitats with inalienable rights.

Ecuador's Constitution Gives Rights to Nature 2008

Bird species that breed at Qinghai Lake include the bar-headed goose (Anser indicus), brown-headed gull (Larus brunnicephalus), the larger black-headed gull (Larus ichthyaetus), and large colonies of great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) that nest on rocky pinnacles above the lake.

Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe 2008

It was here that the severe impact of brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) on songbirds was well documented.

Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition 2007

The so-called “Mafia behaviour,” by brown-headed cowbirds is reported in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Raise my Kids or I'll Trash Your Place The Nag 2007

She was brown-headed and wore a cotton print dress which ill sorted with the bitter weather.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003