Cardinals, chickadees, finches, cardinals, grosbeaks and titmice are attracted to this seed.
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The cardinal is a beautiful, well-loved bird that is a blessing to have visit your feeder. These birds are 20-25 cm long with a wingspan of 30 cm and a body mass of 42-48 g. The male is a bright red while the female is primarily grayish, brown. Both sexes have a black facemask and a prominent crest and orange bill.
These birds can be spotted in shrubby woodland edges and in some cases forest interiors and urban districts throughout eastern and central North America from southern Canada into Mexico and Central America. In recent years these birds have been spotted further north due in part to the provision of bird feeders changing habitat and increasingly moderate temperatures.
Cardinals are primarily vegetarian feeding on nuts, seeds and fruit. They can be found foraging the ground for wild seeds but since they are opportunistic feeders they will readily feed from bird feeders with appropriate bird food.
Reference: Halkin, Sylvia L. and Susan U. Linville. 1999. Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/440
doi:10.2173/bna.440
The most common Grosbeak in North America is the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, therefore the focus of this article. These birds are 18-21.5 cm long with a wingspan of approximately 31 cm and a body mass of 39-49 g. Males have the telltale black head with red triangle on the breast and white under parts while the female is more subdued with a brown-black upper body and tail with a speckled brown and white belly. Females exhibit a distinctive pale crown-stripe and white wing-bars.
These birds can be found in deciduous and mixed forests and near shrubby streams, ponds, marshes, roads or pastures. They can also commonly be seen in well-vegetated urban areas, parks, gardens and orchards. These birds migrate from Canada and northern U.S. to Mexico during the winter.
Grosbeaks birds eat both vegetable matter (specifically fruit and oil-rich seeds) and insects. Feeding will occur by gleaning from trees and flowers and occasionally by ground foraging. These birds will also feed from bird feeders when available.
Reference: Wyatt, Valerie E. and Charles M. Francis. 2002. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/692
doi:10.2173/bna.692
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Titmice are cheerful birds with a number of species. They are a small bird measuring approximately 15 cm in length and having a wingspan of 24 cm and a body weight of 10.5-21 g. All titmice have a crest and are primarily grey. In general, the upper parts are dark gray, while the belly is lighter gray to white.
These birds are regular inhabitants of forests in central to southern United States. They also populate orchards, parks and suburban areas.
Dependant upon the species, titmice will feed either exclusively on insects or on a combination of insects and seeds, nuts and fruit. Titmice hoard food in fall and winter and can be seen caching sunflower seeds taken from a feeder: the birds stored the seeds within 40 m of the feeder and took only one seed per trip. This makes this bird an interesting guest for any backyard feeder.
Reference: Grubb, Jr, T. C. and V. V. Pravasudov. 1994. Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/086
doi:10.2173/bna.86