TABLE 1. = Groups of fleshy fruits most attractive to birds throughout the 
United States=-~Continued 

Name of fruit Species of birds known to eat the fruit 

Common : Generic ; eee Desirable kinds most fond of the fruit 
Wintergreen ...... : Gaultheria .. : 10 : Ruffed grouse, wren tit. 
Huckleberry ..-.+. : Gaylussacia . : 46 : Robin, pine grosbeak, towhee. 
BIUEDEETY cessescls, > VaCCinium ... : 93 : Ruffed grouse, valley quail, eastern 
: . : : kingbird, black-capped chickadee, tufted 
2 ie ; titmouse, catbird, brown thrasher, robin, 
3 | : : hermit thrush, eastern bluebird,* cedar 
Shima : : waxwing, orchard oriole, pine erosbeae 
5 Sone ; towhee. ~ 
BeoUbyDCrryilscicicee) > Caoblicarpa. : Ti + Mockingbird, brown thrasher. 
Partridgeberry eo. ; Mitchella ... : 10 : Ruffed grouse. 
Hiderberry ....... ; Sambucus .... : 118 : Valley quail, flicker, red-headed wood- 
: ‘ ; pecker, eastern and Arkansas kingbirds, 
‘ : : black phoebe, wren tit, mockingbird, 
8 ea : catbird, brown and California thrashers, 
3 : : robin, olive-backed thrush, eastern and 
: western bluebirds, phainopeple, red- 
; > eyed vireo, rose-breasted and black- 
: 8 : headed grosbeaks, California towhee, 
ans ; white-crowned Sparee i 
Snowberry, coral- : Symphoricarpos: 33 ; Sharp-tailed grouse, varied thrush, 
berry 2 ys : eras and pine Erocheste. 
Blackhaw, cran- : Viburnum .... : 35 : Ruffed grouse, yellow-billed cuckoo, 
berrybush : Ruse : flicker, catbird, brown thrasher, robin, 
8 A ; eastern bluebird, cedar waxwing, rose- 
: breasted grosbeak, Puree finch. 
HONCYSUCKGH..scs > LONICera o... : 18 +: Bobwhite, Bae piird Brow aneaginere. robin, 
: regi : - hermit thrush, pine BOIL white- 
2 throated sparrow. A 
1/ parberries (Berberis), buckthorns (Rhammus), and currants (Ribes) are omitted 
because they serve as alternate hosts of rusts, attacking wheat, oats, and white pine, 
respectively. Yews (Taxus), wild cherries (Prunus), and ee (sollenum) also 
are omitted as being dangerous stock poisoning: plants. - 
2/ When 10 or more. 
3/ Carries apple rust; should not be planted. near valuable orchards. 
4 d : 
4/ Only nonpoisonous species of sumac are considered. 
‘ 5/ Data given are based entirely on field observations; total number of birds 
cating the various species of Hlaeagnus unknown. 
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