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TABLE 1. - Groups of flesJiy fruits most attractive to birds throughout the 



United States 



Name of 



fruit 



Species of birds known to eat the fruit 



Common 



; Generic 



: ber^ 



[ Desirable kinds most fond of the fruit 



Juniper; redcedar-' 



; Juniperus .... 



: 50 



, Flicker, mockingbird, robin, eastern 



: bluebird, cedar waxwing, myrtle warbler, 



; evening and pine grosbeaks, purple finch 



Greenbrier 



. Smilax 



: 43 



: Mockingbird, catbird, brown thrasher, 

 . robin, hermit thrush, cardinal. 



:^yberry ......... 



: L^rica' ....... 



, 85 ; 



Bobwhite, flicker, downy woodpecker, 

 : eastern phoebe, tree swallow, black- 

 capped chickadee, Carolina wren, cat- 

 bird, brown thrasher, hermit thrush, 

 eastern bluebird, white-eyed vireo, 

 : myrtle warbler, meadowlark, towhee. 



Hackberry 



, Geltis : 



47 



. Flicker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, 

 mockingbird, brown thrasher, robin, 

 eastern bluebird, cedar waiwing, 

 cardinsil. 



Mulberry : 



Morus : 



59 • 



Yellow-billed cuckoo, red-bellied, red- 

 : headed, and downy woodpeckers, eastern 



kingbird, mockingbird, catbird, robin, 

 wood thrush, cedar waxwing, red-eyed 

 vireo, yellow warbler, orchard and 

 Baltimore orioles, scarlet tanager, 

 cardinal, purple finch. 



Pokeberry , 



Phytolacca ... , 



52 



, Mourning dove, flicker, eastern kingbird, 

 . mockingbird, catbird, robin, hermit, 



olive-backed, and gray-cheeked thrushes, 



eastern bluebird, cardinal. 



Spicebush 



Benzoin 



: 17 



, Eastern kingbird, wood thrush, veery, 

 red-eyed vireo. 



Sassafras : 



Sassafras .... 



18 : 



Bobwhite, eastern kingbird, catbird, 

 robin, veery, red-eyed vireo. 



Strawberry 



Fragaria 



: 52 



Catbird, brown thrasher, robin, wood 

 thrush, tovriiee. 



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