Brown-headed Cowbird

Molothrus ater (Boddaert, 1783)

Photo © By Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada - Brown-headed Cowbird, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38322651

STATUS

Canada south to Mexico. Polytypic.

OVERVIEW

Species not admitted nationally during the period covered (BOU 1971).

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NOT PROVEN

0). 1927 Cornwall St Tudy, seen, undated.

(Eds., British Birds 20: 298).

[KAN].

History In an Editorial (1927) in British Birds, Vol. XX. p. 298, under 'Brown-coloured Rook in Cornwall', they say: 'Cornwall. - Mr. E. W. M. Magor informs us of a brown-coloured Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) that frequents the neighbourhood of St. Tudy. He describes it as being light chestnut on the upper surface, with a darker head, and bay coloured below.'

Comment Could this be an immature male Brown-headed Cowbird ? See p. 510, in Sibley's North American Bird Guide.