List of brood parasitic passerines

This is a list of brood parasites in the order Passeriformes, the perching birds. Instead of making nests of their own, and feeding their young, brood parasites deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.[1]

The vampire finch is a parasite, but is not brood parasitic.[2]

  1. ^ David Attenborough (1998) [1998]. The Life of Birds. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-691-01633-X.
  2. ^ Schluter, Dolph; Grant, Peter R. (1984). "Ecological Correlates of Morphological Evolution in a Darwin's Finch, Geospiza difficilis" (PDF). Evolution. 38 (4): 856–869. doi:10.2307/2408396. hdl:2027.42/137395. JSTOR 2408396. PMID 28555828.