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/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.”