Most Common birds to visit your Birdfeeders or to be looking for a Nesting box or Birdhouse

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American Robin

• Congregates in large flocks during winter. Mostly south of Canada to Florida and Gulf Coast. Also along Pacific Coast.

• Breeds from Alaska southward to northern Florida. Found in forests, woodlands, gardens, especially where short-grass areas are interspersed with shrubs and trees. Found in both urban and suburban areas.

• Favorite food: Earthworms, meal worms and fruit

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Black Capped Chickadee

• Breeding across northern two-thirds of the United States, farther south in mountains. Found in woodlands, open woods and parks, willow thickets, old fields and cottonwood groves. Most numerous at forest edges. Uses nesting boxes and bird feeders
• In winter they stay together in flocks and are in same area as breeding. Go to suburban areas to eat at bird feeders. Will go to any type of feeder.
• Favorite Food: Small caterpillars, spiders, snails, slugs, centipedes, and some berries. Sunflower, Safflower, Suet seeds in winter

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 Blue Jay
• Some birds migrate but most jays remain for the winter months.
•Throughout eastern United States to Gulf Coast, westward to central Texas. Found in mixed forests and woodlands and along forest edges. Common in urban and suburban areas, especially where large oaks are present. Will eat from bird feeders prefers hopper style.
• Favorite food: Arthropods, acorns and nuts, fruits, sunflower, corn and milo seeds, small vertebrates.

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Chipping Sparrow
• Winters in southern part of US and South America. Is Ground feeder that prefers ground platform bird feeders.
• Breeds in open woodlands with grass, along river and lake shorelines, farms, and in urban and suburban parks from very eastern Alaska through Canada, southward to southern United States. Absent from southern Great Plains and Florida.
• Favorite Food: Small seeds & fruits, and insects,sunflower, millet and corn.

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Dark eyed Junco

• Juncos are also known as the "snowbirds". In the eastern United States, they appear in most states only in the winter, and then retreat each spring.
• Data shows that it is often the most common visitor of bird feeders . Prefers platform and suet feeders.
• Favorite Food: Seeds and insects. White Millet, sunflower,corn,peanuts and nyjer.

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Downey Woodpecker

• Will be found year round in western Alaska southward to southern California, northern Arizona, and eastern Texas to Florida. Will use nesting boxes.
• Downy Woodpecker is a part of mixed species flocks in winter.
• Commonly found in human-modified habitats, such as orchards, parks, and residential areas. Will visit bird feeders, prefers suet feeders.
• Favorite Food: Insects and other arthropods, fruits, seeds, some cambium, sap. Sunflower and suet.

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Eastern Bluebird

• Winters from Kansas to Connecticut and south. Also southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. In mild winters, may be found farther north.
• Likes open spaces with sparse groundcover, such as orchards, clear-cuts, parks, and large lawns in suburban and urban areas.
• Breeds across eastern United States southward to central Texas and Florida. Also southeastern Arizona. Uses nesting boxes.
• Favorite Food: Insects and small fruits

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European Starling

• Can be found from Alaska to Florida and their population is estimated at over 200 million birds.
• Found in open country, fields, and trees for nesting; especially near people in agricultural and urban areas.
• Hopper bird feeders attract these birds. However they can become a nuisance and empty your birdfeeders.
• Favorite Food: Many kinds of invertebrates, fruits, grains, seeds, and garbage


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Evening Grosbeak
• Evening Grosbeaks are irruptive migrants--meaning their migration is irregular and changes based on food availability.
• Breeds & winters southward to mountains of northern California, and through the Rocky Mountains into Mexico. Isolated populations in Black Hills of South Dakota. Eastward through the northern United States.
• Found in coniferous or deciduous forests, and in urban and suburban areas.
Comes readily to traditional hopper bird feeders.
• Favorite Food: Small fruits and seeds, insects and other invertebrates. Sunflower and Saflower seeds.

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House Sparrow

• Can be found in all parts of the United States,
• Found in human modified habitats: farms, residential, and urban areas. They sheer numbers can overwhelm birdfeeders and cause them to become a nuisance.
• Favorite Food: Sunflower, corn & millet seeds and insects

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Mourning Dove

• Is among the 10 most abundant birds in the United States
• Breeds from southern Canada throughout the United States. Will reside in all areas over the winter except for the Great Plains and the northernmost areas.
• Found in agricultural areas, open woods, deserts, forest edges, cities and suburbs. As ground feeders they tend to like flat, platform-like & hopper style bird feeders
• Favorite Food: Seeds, cracked corn, millet, sunflower seeds, and peanut kernels

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Northern Cardinal

• Resident year round from Minnesota, South Dakota, and Maine southward through southern Florida.. Also locally in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
• Likes areas with shrubs and small trees, including forest edges, hedgerows, and suburbs. Common at bird feeders, especially at dawn and dusk. Prefers a steady, stationary feeder, such as hopper style, platform or ground feeder.
• Favorite Food: Fruits, buds, and insects. Black oil sunflower, buckwheat, black and gray stripe sunflower, and safflower seeds
 

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Northern Flicker

• Resident year round throughout the United States.
• Found in in parks, suburbs, farmlands, woodlands, and deserts, including cities and suburbs. This bird readily comes to hanging backyard bird feeders.
• Favorite Food: Insects, primarily ants. Also fruits, black oil sunflower and hulled sunflower seeds

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Northern Mockingbird
• The Northern Mockingbird is a loud and persistent singer. It sings all through the day, and often into the night. Most nocturnal singers are unmated males, which sing more than mated males during the day too. Nighttime singing is more common during the full moon. In well-lit areas around people, even mated males may sing at night.
• Resident throughout the United States. Sometimes will visit suet bird feeders
• Found in areas with open ground and shrubby vegetation, such as in parkland, cultivated land, and suburbs.
• Favorite Food: Fruits and insects

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Purple Martin

• The largest of the North American swallows
• Winters in South America, in lowlands east of the Andes.
• Breeds south of New Brunswick, east of central Texas and south to Florida. Also in scattered locations along Pacific Coast, and in the deserts and mountains of the southwestern United States.
• Breeds near human settlements where nest houses are provided, especially near water and large open areas
• Favorite Food: Flying insects.


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Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Found year round in southern Alaska southward to northern United States. Other populations from the Appalachians to northern Georgia and throughout the Mountain West.
• Found in mature and diverse stands of forests, especially spruce, fir, larch, and cedar. Also suburban habitat with sufficient conifers. Will use nesting boxes or birdhouses
• Irruptive movements southward in years of poor cone production in boreal forest. Some birds move south every year, especially from most northern populations
• Insects, spiders, and sunflower, saflower, suet seeds. Visits bird feeders, prefers tube feeders

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Flies nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico to winter in Central America.
• Breeds southward from eastern North Dakota to eastern Texas and Florida.
• Breeds in mixed woodlands and eastern deciduous forest, gardens, and orchards.
• Flower nectar, small insects, and tree sap. Comes to hummingbird feeders

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Song Sparrow
• Most persistent singers
• Winters along coasts and from southern Canada southward to Mexico and Florida.
• Found in variety of open, shrubby areas, especially near water in arid regions.
• Favorite Food: Sunflower, corn, millet seeds, fruits, invertebrates. Is a ground feeder so prefers platform and ground bird feeders

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Tufted Titmouse

• A common bird of forest and feeders in the eastern United States
• Resident from southern Minnesota, northern Michigan, southern Ontario and southern Vermont, southward to northeastern Mexico and the Gulf Coast. Will use nesting houses and birdhouses
• Deciduous forest, swamps, orchards, parks, and suburban areas. Visits bird feeders, prefers platform and ground bird feeders
• Favorite Food: Insects and sunflower, safflower, suet seeds

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White-breasted Nuthatch
• Resident in deciduous forests from southern Canada southward to northern Florida and southern Mexico.
• Found in mature deciduous forests, especially near openings and edges. Also parks and suburbs with large trees. Will use nesting boxes and birdhouses for songbirds like wrens and chickadees.
• It frequents bird feeders preferring tube and suet feeders. Takes sunflower seeds off to the side of a tree, where it wedges them into a crevice and hammers them open
• Favorite Food: Insects, nuts, and sunflower, safflower, and suet seeds.

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 Wood Duck
• The Wood Duck is a popular and colorful game bird found in forested wetlands, including along rivers, swamps, marshes, ponds, and lakes.
• Breeds throughout the eastern half of the United States, southward to Cuba. In the West, breeds southward along Pacific Coast to southern California, and at scattered locations inland. Wood Duck readily uses nest boxes provided for it
• Winters in southern three-quarters of breeding range, and in Southwest.
• Favorite Foods: Seeds, acorns, fruits, aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates.

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Wren

• Breeds southward to central California, central New Mexico, northern Arkansas, and northern Georgia. Breeds along forest edges and in open woodlands, city parks, and residential areas with trees. Uses Nesting boxes and birdhouses
• Winters in the southern United States from California, Texas, and central Arkansas, to southern Maryland and southward to Gulf Coast and throughout Florida. Will be in thickets, shrubby areas, residential yards and gardens. Sometimes visit suet birdfeeders
• Favorite Foods: Small terrestrial invertebrates.

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