Baywing

Copyright: monacoeye • Pantanal, August 2011 • Do not copy without permission,

Bird name: Baywing
Latin: Agelaioides badius
Other: Bay Winged Cowbird • Asa-de-telha (Br)
Family: Icteridae • Cowbirds
Range: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay
Similar: Juvenile Screaming Cowbird

The Bay-winged Cowbird, as it is commonly known, is predominantly grey with rufous wing edges and black eye and bill.

Above, seen on the Transpantaneira highway, in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Baywings were easy to see at Pouso Alegre, where they joined Saffron Finches to feed on corn given to the animals. Not uncommon in open country.

These are not “true” Cowbirds, in that they are not brood parasitic or in the genus Molothrus. In fact they are parasitised by Shiny Cowbirds.

Baywings are found in the southern countries of South America.





Directly below, a Baywing perched on wire on the Transpantaneira highway in the Pantanal.


Above, Baywings gather near the animal feeders at the Pouso Alegre fazenda lodge in the Pantanal.

Below, Baywings on a farm near Lagoa do Peixe, southern Brazil, Nov 2009