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LindaTX8 said:Ann, that's a very interesting article...thanks for finding it! I DO wonder about the "cattle, horses, bison, and lawn mowers" areas that they are said to prefer, since I have none of those! But neighbors have lawn mowers and at least one family has horses. Then there's a very large parcel of land near the subdivision (formerly a ranch) that's been for sale for quite a while after a developer was prevented from putting houses with relatively small lots on it.
Love the woodpeckers and bluejays, Lin. The grackles are fine-looking birds.. not birds I want around here, but that's just because I used to live in the city, and they can be a problem there.

I think what they were saying Linda, but they didn't say it very well, either that or the author didn't translate it well; is that cowbirds were native to the midwestern US but all this urban sprawl has allowed them to spread *throughout* the US. I know they were unheard of in south Fl. until recent years. So now they have become spread all over the US instead of just being in the midwestern states.