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Northern Flicker

Posted on September 28, 2012October 24, 2024 by Dave Titterington

The Northern Flicker is one of the largest and most beautiful woodpeckers in North America. We receive numerous calls each year along with customers stopping by Wild Bird Habitat asking about this bird that they occasionally see in their yards. It does not frequent feeders and bird baths as often as other woodpeckers, but when…

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Red-tailed Hawk

Posted on September 28, 2012September 21, 2022 by Dave Titterington

The Red Tail is our most common and widespread North American Hawk. It is also one of the largest and most powerful of our hawks. If you see a large hawk in the summer, sitting in trees or on a light pole, it is probably a Red Tail. Though they are common, there is a…

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Dark-eyed Junco

Posted on September 28, 2012September 19, 2022 by Dave Titterington

The Dark-Eyed Junco is represented by five forms throughout the U S. At one time, they were recognized as separate species. Many still think the larger White Winged Junco of the Black Hills area may fit this belief. It seems to stay in an elliptical area adjacent to this part of the country. Ornithologists seem…

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Posted on September 28, 2012September 15, 2022 by Dave Titterington

This tiny jewel is the only one of the 16 species of Hummingbirds in the U.S. to regularly nest in the eastern part of the country. It is also one of the smallest of the species, weighing from 2 to 6 grams, or approximately 0.2 of an ounce. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are medium to long-distance migrants….

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House Wren

Posted on September 28, 2012October 31, 2024 by Dave Titterington

The diminutive House Wrens are one our most entertaining and longed for birds of the spring by most backyard bird enthusiasts… Their excited antics, and the male’s bubbly enthusiastic song, are cherished by many.  It is the most widely dispersed Wren in the western hemisphere with subspecies nesting as far south as Brazil. Their habitat…

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House Finch

Posted on September 28, 2012October 31, 2024 by Dave Titterington

The House Finch, a now common bird that visits bird feeders throughout the Eastern, Midwestern, and Central Great Plains states, is actually a western bird species that was introduced from California into Long Island, NY by caged bird dealers around 1940. They were being sold in the pet trade as Hollywood Linnets, or Hollywood Finch…

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Downy Woodpecker

Posted on September 28, 2012June 20, 2025 by Dave Titterington

The Downy Woodpecker is a permanent resident bird. They are well established in older neighborhoods with mature trees and the first of our woodpeckers to show up in a developing neighborhood. It is not only the most common and prevalent woodpecker in this area, but is also the smallest of our North American woodpecker species….

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Red-breasted Nuthatch

Posted on September 28, 2012October 31, 2024 by Dave Titterington

If ever there were a bird that arrived in our backyards in preparation for the winter acting almost as happy to see us as we them, it is the Red-breasted Nuthatches. During the summer these little dynamos live in northern and western coniferous forests of spruce, fir, pine, hemlock, and western red cedar including the…

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Belted Kingfisher

Posted on September 28, 2012September 8, 2022 by Dave Titterington

What an interesting and shy bird is the Kingfisher. You will probably hear them before sighting one. The shrill raspy rattle can be heard from a long distance. This seems to be the only recognized sound the Kingfisher makes. It is a large bird that measures from 13″ to 15″ long, with a heavy head…

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Brown-headed Cowbird

Posted on September 28, 2012September 8, 2022 by Dave Titterington

 The Brown Headed Cowbird is not the sentimental favorite of many birders. It’s habit of not building a nest, rather laying it’s eggs in another birds’ nest, using those birds to hatch and raise their young, started eons ago. This bird was originally found in the great plains, following the vast herds of Bison. These…

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