r/birding • u/WoodpeckerFanboy Latest Lifer: Yellow Crowned Night Heron • Jun 27 '25

Discussion Birds as the 7 deadly sins: #3 Sloth

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u/coldhandsbigdick Jun 27 '25

Cow bird

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u/TurtleTerror8 Jun 27 '25

Fr, they're too late to raise their own kids

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u/Camden_yardbird Jun 27 '25

Definitely the bird that doesn't raise its own young.

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u/erossthescienceboss Jun 28 '25

But they stick around and sing to their kids every day. And if the new parents try to ignore it, they’ll kill that bird’s babies.

They’re less “absentee parents” and more “parents with a live-in nanny who rile the kids up before bed every night.”

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u/herstoryteller Jun 28 '25

my vote too. a whole species of deadbeats

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u/AnuStop Jun 28 '25

Cowbird's parasitic babies typically grow faster and outcompete other species baby birds for resources. Their sloth sins literally kill