https://illinoisaudubon.org/blog/2019/07/09/birders-notebook-brown-headed-cowbird/ When you join the IAS, you're preserving wildlife sanctuaries statewide. Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisaudubon.org/blog/2019/07/09/birders-notebook-brown-headed-cowbird/#comment-5710 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:26:24 +0000 https://illinoisaudubon.org/?p=6574#comment-5710 I have been feeding a cardinal peanuts, and he approaches when I go out my back door, looking for the handout. Today I noticed him feeding a larger bird that does not look like a cardinal. I think it is a cow bird.

]]> https://illinoisaudubon.org/blog/2019/07/09/birders-notebook-brown-headed-cowbird/#comment-5709 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:20:58 +0000 https://illinoisaudubon.org/?p=6574#comment-5709 If a cow bird is raises by a cardinal, will the cow bird have the cardinal’song?

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