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I cheated and described the bird to my ornithologist brother, and he said it was a cowbird. I looked it up in the book and indeed they lay their eggs in other bird's nests so the other birds will raise them. Sounds like some people I know.
Some Cuckoos do the same thing, but the book alluded that the difference is that cowbirds don't care much what the other kind of bird is; any nest will do.
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