Googled it and sort of got it right - Cowbird, does my answer count? The only reason I know it is that every so often, Alex notes that the species is a parasite.
Old world cuckoos are brood parasites, cowbirds are new world birds, so it is that cuckoos are longer established in culture as parasites: the cuckoo is a pretty bird... a nest she never buildeth, a vagrant she does roam. And if you know the British film Village of the Damned about the town where the women give birth to alien children, it's from a book called The Midwitch Cuckoos. So I would have known to go with cuckoo, although I do think cowbird should be acceptable. (FWIW American cuckoos are occasionally parasitic but not habitually. They also do not inhabit clocks.)
Cow bird?
- steve 6-17-2026 10:10 am
Googled it and sort of got it right - Cowbird, does my answer count? The only reason I know it is that every so often, Alex notes that the species is a parasite.
- steve 6-17-2026 10:11 am [add a comment]
the answer was cuckoo but looking at google for cowbird i would have challenged it and won unless im missing something.
- dave 6-17-2026 10:33 am [add a comment]
Cowbirds are classic DMT subject matter.
- bill 6-17-2026 10:24 am [add a comment]
Old world cuckoos are brood parasites, cowbirds are new world birds, so it is that cuckoos are longer established in culture as parasites: the cuckoo is a pretty bird... a nest she never buildeth, a vagrant she does roam. And if you know the British film Village of the Damned about the town where the women give birth to alien children, it's from a book called The Midwitch Cuckoos. So I would have known to go with cuckoo, although I do think cowbird should be acceptable. (FWIW American cuckoos are occasionally parasitic but not habitually. They also do not inhabit clocks.)
- alex 6-17-2026 1:29 pm [add a comment]