Hooty Hoot
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Saw a flock of birds today that I was not familiar with. I was not able to get a picture. They appeared to be some kind of smallish blackbird except they all had brown heads. Anyone know what they were?
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FERAL ONE
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sounds like brown headed cowbirds. the males have almost bronze colored heads.
Turkeypaw
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SWbowhunter
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They are evil!!!!
RUTTNBUCK
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Hooty Hoot
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Yep! That be it. Seems like I would have seen them before. How common are they to the North Georgia region?
Hoot, they are everywhere down here. They are parasitic nesters. A pest, in my opinion, although I reckon they serve some unknown purpose.
deanitall
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Flocks are probably just passing thru but there are a few that will stay around, but 
them all.
them all.
Turkeypaw
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I'm not sure about North Georgia, but I see them all the time in SC.
RUTTNBUCK
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Hoot I don't know about N. Ga., but they come through here every spring( East Central Ga.)........They usually arrive about the time the Pecan trees are starting to leaf out. They come to my feeders and run the other birds off..............As nick said they are parasitic nesters, Which means they lay their eggs in the nests of other songbirds. Being that they are usually bigger than the other hatchlings they out compete and the offspring of the parents die. The parents wind up raising offspring that is not even theirs
germag
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Kind of like people and the welfare system, huh?
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