The Shiny Cowbird is one of the island’s most fascinating residents, part singer, part strategist, and a quiet master of survival. With its purple-glossed feathers and bright musical whistles, it moves through our farms and open country like a wandering note of black and violet.

But here’s the twist:
This bird lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. Up to 20 species in Trinidad and Tobago raise their young, making the cowbird one of nature’s most clever opportunists.

Some call it Lazy Bird. But nature calls it adaptation.

A glossy immigrant from South America, the Shiny Cowbird is now woven into Tobago’s landscape, singing, surviving, and shaping the quiet dramas of our hedgerows and fields.

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