How to Infiltrate the Weird World of Birdwatching

There is a type of bird called a brood parasite, which as a reproductive strategy lays its eggs in the nests of other birds and leaves them to do the parenting. Thus some unsuspecting sparrows or warblers end up raising a conspicuously large cowbird or cuckoo (whence comes <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/cuckold" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">cuckold</a>), usually at the expense of the host birds’ own offspring. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*lRAiAewXwa656wT_.jpg" style="height:468px; width:700px" /> a Wilson’s Warbler feeds its large adult son (a Brown-Headed Cowbird) I, too, am an impostor. I have walked among the hardcore birders and been accepted as one of their own, despite my oversized lack of knowledge and clashing plumage of inexperience. “Anything good today?” a bebinoculared stranger asked me recently on my lunchtime walk in the park.  <a href="https://beesreads.com/how-to-infiltrate-the-weird-world-of-birdwatching-36835ae605f8">Website</a>