The common brown-headed cowbird is the ... A smallish, compact and stocky blackbird with a short and thick-based bill, almost finchlike. Foraging birds are commonly seen on the ground with the ...

Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record ... survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard ...

finishing somewhere towards the rear of the bird's head), some dark bars and pale spots on short wings. They have a fairly long, thin, downcurved beak and long, thin yellow-brown legs. In flight ...

The small brown bird weighs around 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) and has black and yellow bands along with a large beak. The finding ... bitter temperatures and short growing seasons.