Molothrus

IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Cladus: Amniota • Cladus: Reptilia • Cladus: Archosauria • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Passeriformes • Subordo: Passeri • Infraordo: Passerida • Superfamilia: Passeroidea • Familia: Icteridae • Genus: Molothrus Swainson, 1832

Vernacular names

• English: Cowbirds
• العربية: شحارير البقر
• Deutsch: Kuhstärlinge
• suomi: Hohtoturpiaalit
• lietuvių: Karviaganiai

Wikispecies has an entry on:

Molothrus

• Included species (for IOC classification 2.7):

M. aeneus, M. armenti, M. ater, M. bonariensis, M. oryzivorus, M. rufoaxillaris

• IOC link: Molothrus Swainson, 1832 subcat

• ITIS link: Molothrus Swainson, 1832

Molothrus aeneus (cat.)

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Molothrus armenti (cat.)

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Molothrus ater (cat.)

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  Female
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  Female, Male
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  English: A Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) egg in an Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nest.
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  English: A Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) egg in an Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nest.
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  English: An adult male Pacific Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla) eeding a fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater).
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  Female juvenile
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Molothrus bonariensis (cat.)

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  Female
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  juvenile & Zonotrichia capensis
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  juvenile & Zonotrichia capensis
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  juvenile & Zonotrichia capensis
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  juvenile
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  juvenile
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Molothrus oryzivorus (cat.)

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Molothrus rufoaxillaris (cat.)

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Molothrus eggs

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  Spizella passerina Nest, with one Molothrus ater egg.
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  Vireo griseus (White-eyed Vireo) nest with one Molothrus ater egg.
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  Vireo solitarius nest with one Molothrus ater egg

More than one species

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  English: Illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes of a Common Grackle and a male Brown-headed Cowbird, from The Burgess Bird Book for Children