References

Information

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Videos

"Brown-headed Cowbird." YouTube. 2011. Accessed July 11, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPgFlKa7IDE.

Photos

Brown-Headed Cowbird Male. In The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. http://blog.celebrateurbanbirds.org/2013/06/07/focal-species-close-up-brown-headed-cowbirds/?__hstc=75100365.96fa5b1a9c94054d6f620ae581c4d281.1467446613478.1467501343896.1467868063707.4&__hssc=75100365.2.1467868063707&__hsfp=46843158#_ga=1.10728884.147796881.1467446612.

Cowbird Eggs. In Audubon. http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/brown-headed-cowbird

Cowbird Trap. In Plateau Land and Wildlife Mangement. http://www.plateauwildlife.com/seasons-spring-2014/

Least Bell's Vireo. In Endangered Species Program. https://www.fws.gov/endangered/about/ep-33.html.

Least Bell's Vireo with leg band. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_vireo

Male and Female Brown-headed Cowbirds. In California Department of Fish and Wildlife. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Invasives/Species/Cowbird

Northern Cardinal and Brown-headed Cowbird. In Bird Watching. http://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/blog/2014/10/27/photo-week-northern-cardinal-brown-headed-cowbird/.

Riparian Forest Buffer. In Research Gate. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/228798429_fig3_Figure-3-The-traditional-three-zone-riparian-buffer-Source-Reprinted-with-permission

Roost. In University of Missouri. http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G9447

Rotational Grazing. In Tufts University. http://ocw.tufts.edu/Content/40/imagegallery/508880/508883

Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. In Natural Resources Conservation Service. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/co/programs/landscape/?cid=nrcseprd369831

Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. In U.S. National Parks Service. https://www.nps.gov/articles/southwestern-willow-flycatcher.htm.

Vector Drawing of Cowbird. http://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Vector-drawing-of-cowbird/24966.html.