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United States Department of Agriculture 









Bureau of Biological Survey 









Wildlife Research and Management Leaflet BS-44 





Washington, 



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April 1S36 



FRUITS ATT RACTIVE TO BI3DS - iM pRTHEASTaHIT STATES 



REGIOM ITo. '4 



[Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Hew York, Vermont, ]\Tew Hajnpshire, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode. Island, lovra, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Ohio, Pennsylvania, IJew Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, 

 Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia.] 



By W. L. McATEE, Principal Biologist evA Technical Adviser 



Office of the Chief 



Content! 



Page 



Regions for which leaflets on fruits attractive to "birds are availaole . . 2 



Introduction .... 3 



Table 1. — G-roups of fleshy fruits most attractive to "birds throughout the 



United States 4 



Table 2. — Generally distri"buted native fruits of the Northeastern 



States for which satisfactory data on fruiting seasons are availa'ble. , S 

 Table 3. — Supplemental list of rative fruits of the northern border of 



the ITorthcastern States (may re,nge south'-ard in the mountains) 9 



Ta-ble 4. --Supplemental list of native fruits of the coastal region of 



the Northeastern States 10 



Table 5. --Supplemental list of native fruits of the southern border of 



the Northeastern States 10 



Table 6. — Extralimital fruits that have been recommended for Connecticut . 11 



Table 7. — Extralimital fruits thje.t have been recommended for Iowa 11 



Table 8, — Extralimital fru.it s that have been recomm.ended for Maine .... 12 



Table 9. — Extralimital fruits that have been recommended for Massachusetts 12 

 Table 10. — Fruits observed to persist until mid-ilarch in the Arnold 



Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts . 14 



Table 11. — Extra-limital fruits that have been recommended for Michigan . . 18 



T-:/)le 12. — Extralimital fruits that have been recommended for Minnesota. , 19 



Table 13, — Extralimital fruits that have been recommended for New Jersey . 20 



Table 14, — Extralimital friaits that have been recom.mended for New York . . 20 

 Table 15. — Fruits observed to persist until mid-March in the Botanical 



Garden, New York, N. Y 22 



Table IS, — Extralimital fruits thvt have been recommended for Ohio .... 23 



Table 17. — Extralimital fruits the.t have been recommended for Pennsylvania 23 



Table 13, — Extralimital fruits that have been recommended for Wisconsin. . 24 



Literature 25 



