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House Sparrow
Scientific Name: Passer domestions Diet: The House Sparrow eats seeds, human food, crops, and especially insects in the summer. The crops they eat include corn, wheat, and sorghum. They also eat crabgrass, ragweed, and buckwheat. The young House Sparrows eat … Continue reading
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Rock Pigeon
Scientific Name: Columba livia Habitat: Rock Pigeons are very common and can be found all across North and South America. They live in parks, farmland, cliffs, and cities. Rock Pigeons are often seen outside restaurants eating food that has been … Continue reading
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Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
Scientific Name: Poecile rufescens Diet: The Chestnut-Backed Chickadee eats a variety of bugs including spiders, caterpillars, leaf hoppers, aphids, and wasps. They also eat berries and conifer seeds. Habitat: Chestnut-Backed Chickadees inhabit wet and dense Pacific rain forests where they … Continue reading
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California Quail
Scientific Name: Callipepla californica Habitat: California Quail like shrubs and brush nearby for cover. They can be found in a variety for habitats including parks, forest edges, shrubby backyards, desert edges, woodlands, and chaparral. Diet: The California Quail eats mostly … Continue reading
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Wood Duck
Scientific Name: Aix sponsa Diet: Wood Ducks eat a variety of water plant seeds, aquatic invertebrates, and fruits and seeds, including acorns, fruits, duck weed, wild cherries, and smart weed. Sound: The female Wood Duck’s call is a loud and … Continue reading
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Band-Tailed Pigeon
Scientific Name: Patagioenas fasciata Diet: The Band-Tailed Pigeon eats a variety of seeds, nuts, and berries. They eat cherries, pine nuts, flowers, wheat, oats, barley, and insects. Behavior: Band-Tailed Pigeons are usually found in groups of 2 or 3. They … Continue reading
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Song Sparrow
Scientific Name: Melospiza melodia Diet: Song Sparrows eat a variety of seeds and bugs. The bugs they eat include grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, weevils, crane flies, dragon flies, and spiders, and the seeds and plant foods Song Sparrows eat include wheat, … Continue reading
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Turkey Vulture
Scientific Name: Cathartidae aura Habitat: Turkey Vultures can be found in grasslands, foothills, open country, shrub lands, and cliffs. They are often found near open forests for nesting. Diet: Turkey Vultures eat mostly carrion, and they are scavengers. They eat … Continue reading
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Northwestern Crow
Scientific Name: Corvus caurinus Habitat: Northwestern Crows can be found mainly in coastal areas, beaches, forests near shores, cities, towns, dumps, and campgrounds. Diet: Northwestern Crows are Omnivores. Since they usually live in coastal areas, Northwestern Crows eat a lot … Continue reading
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Pine Siskin
Scientific Name: Carduelis pinus Diet: The Pine Siskin eats mainly seeds. It eats the red alder, birch, willow, thistle, spruce, and hemlock seeds. Pine siskins also eat tree buds, spiders, caterpillars, and grasshoppers in the summer. Pine Siskin chicks eat … Continue reading
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