Give 'em the bird!

In this day and age of protests and petitions and since I have become an amateur aficionado (that might be an oxymoron) on my local birds, I am proposing that New York State officially change the sanctioned state bird!  The bluebird is generally associated with happiness and New York State's  laws, policies and governing habits just don't seem to exude happiness.  Instead, I'd like to offer the suggestion of assigning the cowbird as our state bird.  Not because we are a state that has traditionally been a farm filled state with flourishing pastures and meadows where beautiful Guernseys and Jerseys roam aimlessly but due to the very nature of the cowbird itself.

A small sparrow Mom is feeding her "foster" cowbird baby (who is much larger)

They were so named as they feast on insects that were generally stirred up by cattle. As the cattle roamed, the birds remained mobile as well to continue to follow the herd and their source of food. For this reason and probably others, the cowbirds laid/lay their eggs in other birds nests and let these surrogate feathered friends raise their young..... Getting my drift?  If for some reason the cowbird eggs are removed from the nest, the cowbird may well return and destroy the foster bird's own eggs.
Such a simple, workable, sanctioned and championed process that even the bird world has it figured out.  If somebody else will subsidize and/or support my family, why not??

For this simple reason, I propose that Governor Cuomo and the bird brained NYS Legislature change the official state bird from the bluebird of happiness to the mooching, entitled, worthless cowbird...In fact, I think I'll send them a.....................................wait for it.......................TWEET right now!

FYI: this is an adult cowbird... Virtually a nasty blackbird incognito!.