[Elsie]

COWBIRDS!!

 

 

Brown-headed cowbirds are brood parasites;

 

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 Following the constantly roaming herds, cowbirds couldn’t expend the time for nesting, but rather laid their eggs in host nests as they moved along, leaving host parents to raise their eggs to adulthood. As people began to disperse across North America, clearing forests and expanding domesticated livestock herds and agricultural production, the cowbird range expanded also. Nest parasitism enabled brown-headed cowbirds to quickly establish new populations and expand their distribution across the country.

Impacts

Brown-headed cowbirds parasitize the nests of more than 220 bird species in their range. Each cowbird can lay up to 30 eggs per season and usually lay 1 or 2 (or occasionally more) eggs in each host nest. When parasitizing nests, they often remove the egg(s) of the host bird. Brown-headed cowbird chicks usually hatch sooner than the host chicks, are larger, and develop faster. Their larger size and persistent behavior gains them more care from the host parents. Nest parasitism lowers the reproductive success of host birds and has led to population declines in several bird species. In California, the riparian songbirds least Bell’s vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus) and willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) are listed as endangered due to loss of riparian habitat and nest parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds.

Actions Taken if Found

If you observe this species in California, please report your sighting to the CDFW Invasive Species Program, by email to Invasives@wildlife.ca.gov, or by calling (866) 440-9530.

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https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Invasives/Species/Cowbird

[Zathras]

I thought Obamacare was supposed to fix this.
We all knew it was a lie and that it was only going to get worse.

[RideForever]

They can sue the states they live in for allowing Biden’s illegal alien parolees to stay in their state. They should all be sent to a Fed facility, like District of Columbia, to await their trial as Fed charges to deal with.

[COBOL2Java]

Sleepy Joe leads the Cloward-Piven cheer...

"Gimme a 'C'! Gimme an 'L'! Gimme a... y'know, the thing!"

[Bernard]

Don’t these illegals get a debit card filled with Bidenbucks when they walk across the border? Get their card number!

[Max in Utah]

One more facet of Cloward-Piven— overload the system in order to break it down.

[Svartalfiar]

We’ve had migrant patients on dialysis, cardiac catheterization, and in need of heart surgery. Many are very sick.”

He said many illegal immigrants who enter the country and need medical assistance end up staying in the ICU ward for 60 days or more.

A large portion of the patients are pregnant women who’ve had little to no prenatal treatment. This has resulted in an increase in babies being born that require neonatal care for 30 days or longer.

In January, CEO of Denver Health Donna Lynne told reporters that 8,000 illegal immigrants made roughly 20,000 visits to the city’s health system in 2023.
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The total bill for uncompensated care costs last year to the system totaled $140 million, said Dane Roper, public information officer for Denver Health. More than $10 million of it was attributed to “care for new immigrants,” he told The Epoch Times.

All those fancy treatment requirements, normally costing tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars, and yet somehow illegals only account for an average $500 visit? How is that possible? Hospitals practically charge that much just to walk in the door!


“The uninsured rate for undocumented immigrants is more than three times that of other noncitizens in New York City (20 percent) and more than six times greater than the uninsured rate for the rest of the city (10 percent),” the report states.

Or about 60%. And so 40% of illegal aliens have health insurance? What? That's crazy high - I would bet the real number is close to 1-2%!