It is one of the common names of a bird very common in South America and the Caribbean. It is also called blackbird, common blackbird, thrush, Queen Josmary, gamusino, parasitic chamon, morajú, common thrush, Chupin and azulãovaquer, blackened and mulatto thrush, cowboy bird, cowboy bird and blackbird cowboy. Its scientific name is Molothrus bonariensis and belongs to the family Icteridae. It is a very gregarious bird (it lives in herds or flocks). It is one of the best known specimens of laying parasite, because they do not make nests but deposit eggs in nests of other species.
COWBOY BIRD in Chile: Blackbird or thrush, common throughout the country, cowboy bird in Dominican Republic. Passerine bird of the family of the jaxyrids that inhabits in America, except in the dense jungles, in the mountains, in Trinidad and Tobago. It appears in Chile in the mid-nineteenth century, apparently crossing from the central area of Argentina. It has colonized many Caribbean islands, reaching the United States where it is usually found in south Florida. The populations that inhabit more southern and northern areas are partially migratory.
