sweet, young lil pal visited my feeder today
#growingup #fledgling #birding #cardinal
sweet, young lil pal visited my feeder today
#growingup #fledgling #birding #cardinal
Cardinals get their trademark red plumage from their food. Mostly granivorous, cardinals also eat insects and a wide variety of fruits (wild grapes, dogwood berries, and mulberries.) These fruits contain carotenoids that can create the reds, oranges, yellows, & pinks.
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Cardinals get their trademark red plumage from their food. Mostly granivorous, cardinals also eat insects and a wide variety of fruits (wild grapes, dogwood berries, and mulberries.) These fruits contain carotenoids that can create the reds, oranges, yellows, & pinks.
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Once limited to the Western US & Mexico. Now found from coast to coast, and southern Canada. In 1939, a few originally captured in California were set free in Long Island by a pet store owner. By the 1940s wild nests began to show up on Long Island, and from there they spread!
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Once limited to the Western US & Mexico. Now found from coast to coast, and southern Canada. In 1939, a few originally captured in California were set free in Long Island by a pet store owner. By the 1940s wild nests began to show up on Long Island, and from there they spread!
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A study of 6 million Swiss adults found that people living near connected tree cover had lower death rates than those near scattered, fragmented trees.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #UrbanHealth 🧪
A study of 6 million Swiss adults found that people living near connected tree cover had lower death rates than those near scattered, fragmented trees.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #UrbanHealth 🧪
#birding #birdsofprey
#birding #birdsofprey
Pros: Its short bill can only feed from flowers too small for many other species.
Cons: It takes about 2,700 flowers to meet daily metabolic needs.
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Pros: Its short bill can only feed from flowers too small for many other species.
Cons: It takes about 2,700 flowers to meet daily metabolic needs.
Learn more at BOW!
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Those in the Himalayas observed the Kashmir Nutcracker, a lesser-known corvid. Most photographs available today were taken after 2020.
See birders' observations & what we've learned from them at BOW.
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Those in the Himalayas observed the Kashmir Nutcracker, a lesser-known corvid. Most photographs available today were taken after 2020.
See birders' observations & what we've learned from them at BOW.
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