Category: Science - Biology
Habitat, cavity requirements, and foods are described for 85 species of birds that nest in cavities in dead or decadent trees. Intensive removal of such trees would disastrously affect breeding habitat for many of these birds that help control destructive forest insects. Birds...
Allen, Robert W., and Margaret M. Nice. 1952. A study of the breeding biology of the purple martin (_Progne subis_). Am. Midl. Nat. 47(3):606-665. Bailey, Alfred M., and R. J. N...
2. Part 2Nest: This species is not an obligate tree nester, and has been reported to use holes in banks or lava beds, rock crevices, ground under shrubs and on islands, haylofts, crows’...
4. Part 4Food: White-headed woodpeckers feed primarily on pine seeds during the winter and early spring, and on insects during the summer. Tevis (1953) determined that 60 percent of the...
3. Part 3Habitat: Saw-whet owls are small, nocturnal hunters of the deep north woods. They nest in the Rocky Mountains up to about 11,000 feet (Bailey and Niedrach 1965). This widely dis...
1. Part 1Habitat, cavity requirements, and foods are described for 85 species of birds that nest in cavities in dead or decadent trees. Intensive removal of such trees would disastrously...
5. Part 5Nest: White-breasted nuthatches nest almost exclusively in natural cavities within living trees of mature forests. When natural cavities are unavailable, they may use an abandon...
7. Part 7Common Name Scientific Name Agave _Agave_ sp. Alder _Alnus_ sp. Almond _Prunus_ sp. American linden _Tilia americana_ L. Anaqua _Ehretia anacua_ (Teran & Berl.) I. M. Johnst. Ap...