File:A young con artist plies his grift - Flickr - TonySprezzatura.jpg
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Picture, if you will, a quaint scene from Mother Nature’s grand design. On the surface, it’s the simple, heartwarming image of a song sparrow mother dutifully tending to her youngster. But look closer and you'll find that not all is as it seems. This unassuming fledgling is not her offspring--but an imposter. He hails not from the sparrow lineage, but rather, is the young scion of a brown-headed cowbird clan. He is a creature born not from the bonds of familial love, but from a dark grift hatched in the sinister alleyways of the animal kingdom. Deftly perpetrating his ruse, this fledgling cowbird has hoodwinked his foster mother into a misplaced display of parental care. His call is not a melody of innocent hunger, but a siren tweet--drawing the hapless sparrow into an intricate dance of survival and deceit. Such is life upon this sylvan stage, where the line between victim and perpetrator blurs, where innocence is lost amidst the rustle of feathers, and where the laws of nature unfold not in black and white, but in the unforgiving grays of ... the Flylight Zone. |
| Date | Taken on 8 June 2023, 17:33 |
| Source | A young con artist plies his grift |
| Author | Paul Danese |
| Flickr tags | brown headed cowbird, glastonbury, song sparrow, fledgling, melospiza melodia, twilight zone, molothrus ater, connecticut, brood parasite |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by TonySprezzatura at https://flickr.com/photos/184781347@N05/52968952916. It was reviewed on 25 June 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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