List of brood parasitic passerines
Cuckoo finch at Polokwane, Limpopo
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Village indigobird
Female pin tailed whydah at Johannesburg Botanical Garden
Female long tailed paradise whydah
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Female shiny cowbird
Brown-headed cowbird
This is the list of the brood parasites in order Passeriformes, the perching birds. Instead of making nests of their own, and feeding their young, brood parasites deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds. [1]
Note that the vampire finch is a parasite, but is not brood parasitic.[2]
Species
- Family Viduidae
- Genus Anomalospiza
- Cuckoo-finch Anomalospiza imberbis
- Genus Vidua
- Village indigobird, Vidua chalybeata
- Jambandu indigobird, Vidua raricola
- Barka indigobird, Vidua larvaticola
- Jos Plateau indigobird, Vidua maryae
- Quailfinch indigobird, Vidua nigeriae
- Dusky indigobird or variable indigobird, Vidua funerea
- Zambezi indigobird or green indigobird, Vidua codringtoni
- Purple indigobird or dusky indigobird, Vidua purpurascens
- Wilson's indigobird or pale-winged indigobird, Vidua wilsoni
- Cameroon indigobird, Vidua camerunensis
- Steel-blue whydah, Vidua hypocherina
- Straw-tailed whydah, Vidua fischeri
- Shaft-tailed whydah, Vidua regia
- Pin-tailed whydah, Vidua macroura
- Togo paradise whydah, Vidua togoensis
- Exclamatory paradise whydah or long-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua interjecta
- Long-tailed paradise whydah or eastern paradise whydah, Vidua paradisaea
- Sahel paradise whydah or northern paradise whydah, Vidua orientalis
- Broad-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua obtusa
- Genus Anomalospiza
- Family Icteridae
- Genus Molothrus
- Shiny cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Brown-headed cowbird Molothurs ater
- Screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris
- Giant cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Bronzed cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Genus Molothrus
References
- ↑ David Attenborough (1998) [1998]. The Life of Birds. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-691-01633-X.
- ↑ Schluter, Dolph; Grant, Peter R. (1984). "Ecological Correlates of Morphological Evolution in a Darwin's Finch, Geospiza difficilis". Evolution. 38 (4): 856–869. doi:10.2307/2408396.
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