Cow Bird On September 22, 2015September 22, 2015 By Picture This by FrankIn art, beauty, birds, conservation, ecology, Florida, nature, photography Brown Headed Cow Bird – Merritt Island – September 2015 This handsome fella was part of a much larger flock. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Instagram (Opens in new window) Instagram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Like Loading... Related
I thought the bird will look like a cow… Hahaha! Just kidding! 🙂 But seriously, why was it called a cow bird? September 24, 2015 at 1:42 AM Reply
They hang around animals in fields and eat the bugs that are stirred up by the larger animals. Today it’s cows mostly, in the past it was bison. September 24, 2015 at 4:36 AM Reply
Picture This by Frank 
I thought the bird will look like a cow… Hahaha! Just kidding! 🙂
But seriously, why was it called a cow bird?
They hang around animals in fields and eat the bugs that are stirred up by the larger animals. Today it’s cows mostly, in the past it was bison.
I guess they were called bison birds before… 🙂