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Bird intelligence - 2006/04/11 02:23 Some bigger birds are thought to be fairly intelligent.

I was wondering more about all the songbirds which sit on cow bird eggs. A day early the cow bird rolls out 1 egg, unless they're is only one (1 is left they're). Then she comes back & lays 1 egg. The host bird would not notice this?



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re:Bird intelligence - 2006/04/11 19:11 Some bigger birds, I believe parrots, seem to be able to count. What about beautifully learned behavior? Does a song bird live enough summers to catch on, after a few summers of cow bird eggs?

From what I've read, the birds which do throw out cow birds do so at the egg stage. Pehraps the instinct to certainly feed is too strong once the birds hatch.



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