BIRDS 



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quail, grouse, cedar birds, orioles, blackbirds, flickers, blue- 

 birds, crows, and others like fruit. But most of them 

 seem to prefer the wild fruit, such as choke-cherries, wild 

 grapes, raspberries, blackberries, partridge berries, bar- 

 berries, blueberries, huckleberries, elderberries, Virginia 

 creeper, mountain ash, and cranberries. 

 In the winter and early spring quail, grouse, sparrows, and 



Fig. 2 2. A Weedy Cornfield. 



(The feeding ground of many birds in autumn and winter.) 



grosbeaks eat the buds of trees and shrubs. Grouse, ducks, 

 and geese also eat leaves of shrubs and herbs. 



The yellow-bellied woodpecker, also called sapsucker, is 

 so called because he taps maple and orchard trees for the 

 sap. The chicadees and kinglets, also, will drink the sap of 

 wounded trees. 



The animal diet of birds consists primarily of insects, 

 also of spiders, thousand legs, snails, angleworms, crayfish. 



