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Red-Headed Woodpecker
Red-Headed Woodpecker
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Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Beech and oak mast, seeds, nuts, berries, fruit,
insects, bird eggs, nestlings, mice.
Call a loud "tchur-tchur."
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/au
dio/Red-headed_Woodpecker.html
Ring-necked Pheasant
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Male
Female
Ring-necked Pheasant
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Phasianus colchicus
Scratches on ground and digs with bill for
food.
Male crows with a loud, harsh "koork-KOK.“
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Ring-necked_Pheasant.html
Wild Turkey
Wild Turkey
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Meleagris gallopavo
Acorns, nuts, seeds, fruits, insects, buds, fern
fronds, salamanders.
Male display an explosive gobble. Call a rather
nasal yelp.
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Wild_Turkey.html
American Robin
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Male
Female
American Robin
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Turdus migratorius
Invertebrates, especially earthworms, and
fruit.
Song a musical whistled phrase, "cheerily,
cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up." Call
note a sharp "chup." Also a very high-pitched
thin whistling note.
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
American_Robin1.html
Eastern Bluebird
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Female
Male
Eastern Bluebird
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Sialia sialis
Insects and small fruits.
Song a rich warbling whistle broken into short
phrases: "Tu-wheet-tudu." Also a dry chatter.
Northern Cardinal
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Male
Female
Northern Cardinal
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Cardinalis cardinalis
Seeds, fruits, buds, and insects.
Song a series of clear whistles, the first downslurred and ending in a slow trill. "Cheer,
cheer, cheer, what, what, what, what." Call a
sharp "chip."
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Northern_Cardinal1.html
American Goldfinch
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Male
Female
American Goldfinch
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Carduelis tristis
Seeds, especially of composite flowers. Few
insects.
Song a long series of twittering and warbling
notes. Common contact call a "tsee-tsi-tsi-tsit,"
often given in flight. May be described as "perchic-o-ree" or "po-ta-to-chip."
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
American_Goldfinch.html
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow
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Hirundo rustica
Flying insects.
Song: a twittery series of squeaky notes, often
with dry rattle in the middle.
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Song: a twittery series of squeaky notes, often with
dry rattle in the middle.
Blue Jay
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Blue Jay
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Cyanocitta cristata
Arthropods, acorns and nuts, fruits, seeds,
small vertebrates.
Very vocal; make a large variety of calls. Most
frequent call is a harsh "jeer." Also clear
whistled notes and gurgling sounds.
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Blue_Jay.html
Northern Oriole
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Male
Female
Northern Oriole
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Icterus galbula
Caterpillars, fruits, insects, spiders, and nectar.
Song: a series of rich whistled notes
interspersed with rattles. Call: a chatter.
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Baltimore_Oriole.html
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
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Male
Female
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
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Archilochus colubris
Flower nectar, small insects, and tree sap.
Comes to hummingbird feeders.
Rapid squeaky chipping. Humming sound
from wings.
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Ruby-throated_Hummingbird.html
Common Raven
Common Raven
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Corvus corax
Omnivorous. Eats meat, eggs, insects, grain,
fruit, garbage, and carrion.
Omnivorous. Eats meat, eggs, insects, grain,
fruit, garbage, and carrion.
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http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/
Common_Raven.html
Sources
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www.whatbird.com
www.birds.cornell.edu
http://www.naturesongs.com/tyrrcert.html#cor
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Warblers
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Blackburnian Warbler
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Breeds in mature
coniferous and mixed
coniferous/deciduous
forests.
No other North
American warbler has an
orange throat.
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Cerulean Warbler
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Breeds in forests with
tall deciduous trees and
open understory, such as
wet bottomlands and dry
slopes.
It nests and forages
higher in the canopy than
most other warblers.
Aquatic Wading Birds
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Spotted Sandpiper
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Breeds in a variety of habitats,
such as shoreline, sagebrush,
grassland, forest, lawn, or
park.
The female may store sperm
for up to one month.
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Greater Yellowlegs
Breeds in muskeg, wet bogs
with small wooded islands
,and forests (usually
coniferous) with abundant
clearings.
Its low densities and tendency to
breed in inhospitable,
mosquito-ridden muskegs
make it one of the leaststudied shorebirds on the
continent.
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Ground Nesting Birds
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Red-breasted Nuthatch
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Mature and diverse stands of
coniferous forests, especially
spruce, fir, larch, and cedar.
The Red-breasted Nuthatch
applies sticky conifer resin
globules to the entrance of its
nest hole.
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Scarlet Tanager
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Breeds in deciduous and
mixed deciduous/coniferous
woodlands, especially mature
forests.
On the wintering grounds in
South America the Scarlet
Tanager joins mixed species
foraging flocks with
flycatchers, antbirds,
woodcreepers, and resident
tropical tanagers.
Continued
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Burrowing Owl
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Lives in dry, open areas with no trees and short
grass. (prairies)
The Burrowing Owl collects mammal dung and
puts it in and around its burrow. The dung attracts
dung beetles, which the owl then captures and eats.
Falcons
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Merlin
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Breeds in open country from
open coniferous woodland to
prairie, occasionally in adjacent
suburbs.
The Merlin does not build a nest,
but instead takes over old nests of
other raptors or crows. It
sometimes nests on top of domed
magpie nests rather than in the
nest cavity.
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Cooper’s Hawk
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Breeds in deciduous, mixed, and
coniferous forests. Becoming
more common in suburban and
urban areas.
A Cooper's Hawk captures a bird
with its feet, and will squeeze it
repeatedly to kill it. It does not
bite the prey to kill it in the
fashion of falcons, but holds it
away from its body until it dies. It
has been known to drown its
prey, holding a bird under water
until it stops moving
Order FALCONIFORMES Family ACCIPITRIDAE Subfamily Accipitrinae
Owls
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Spotted Owl
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In northern part of range,
lives in old-growth
coniferous forests.
An individual Spotted
Owl may not breed every
year. Some do not breed
for periods of five to six
years.
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Barred Owl
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Forested areas, from
swamps and riparian
areas to uplands.
(deciduous)
The belly feathers of
some Barred Owls are
pink. This coloring may
be the result of eating a
lot of crayfish.
Owls Continued
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Short-eared Owl
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Open country, including prairie, meadows, tundra,
moorlands, marshes, savanna and open woodland.
The Short-eared Owl may compete with the Barn
Owl in some areas. Some successful nest box
programs to attract Barn Owls have coincided with
the decline of the Short-eared Owl in the same
area.
Chickadees
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Black-capped
Chickadee
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Deciduous and mixed
deciduous/coniferous
woodlands, open woods
and parks, willow
thickets, and cottonwood
groves.
The Black-Capped
Chickadee hides seeds
and other food items for
later recovery.
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Mountain Chickadee
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Coniferous Forests
Juvenile Mountain
Chickadees leave their
home territories about
three weeks after
fledging. The young
birds settle in a new area
by late summer, and
usually remain in that
spot all their lives.
Chickadee’s continued
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Black-capped
Chickadee
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Mountain Chickadee
Blackbirds
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Common Grackle
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Found in a variety of open
areas with scattered trees,
including open woodland,
boreal forest, swamps,
marshes, agricultural areas,
urban residential areas, and
parks.
It will follow plows for
invertebrates and mice, wade
into water to catch small fish,
and sometimes kill and eat
other birds at bird feeders.
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Baltimore oriole
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Breeds along woodland edges
and open areas with scattered
trees, especially deciduous
trees.
The Baltimore Oriole
hybridizes extensively with
the Bullock's Oriole where
their ranges overlap in the
Great Plains.
Nuthatches
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Brown Creeper
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Coniferous and mixed
coniferous-deciduous forests.
Distinctive in habits and
morphology, the Brown
Creeper is a small, wellcamouflaged bird of
woodlands.
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White-breasted Nuthatch
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Found in mature deciduous
forests, especially near
openings and edges. Also
parks and suburbs with large
trees.
Nuthatches gather nuts and
seeds, jam them into tree bark,
and hammer or "hatch" the
food open with their bills.
Sources
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www.birds.cornell.edu
www.naturesongs.org