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Northern Flicker
Size - 10 to 14 inches long
Habitat - Woodlands, deserts, and suburbs.
Nesting - They nest is a cavity in a tree or cactus.
Eggs - 3 to 14, white. Incubation about 12 days, by both parents. Young leave the nest 25 to 28 days after hatching.
Food - Ants and other insects; fruits. |
Great Crested Flycatcher
Size - 8 to 9 inches long
Habitat - Deciduous woodlands.
Nesting - The nest is a mass of twigs and grass, and usually a snake skin, in a tree cavity 5 to 70' high.
Eggs - 3 to 8, buff, blotched with brown and purple. Incubation 13 to 15 days. Young leave the nest 15 days after hatching.
Food - Flying insects and berries. |
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Gray Catbird
Size - 8 to 9 1/4 inches long.
Habitat - Woodland thickets, garden shrubbery, and parks.
Nesting - The nest is a cup of twigs, leaves, grass, and stems above the ground in dense shrubs, a tree, or tangled vines.
Eggs - 2 to 6, unmarked greenish-blue. Incubation 13 days, by female. Young leave the nest 10 to 15 days after hatching. Sometimes two brood a season.
Food - Insects, spiders, and berries. |
Eastern Bluebird
Size - 5 to 7 inches long.
Habitat - Farmlands, orchards, and open woodlands.
Nesting - The nest is a cup of grass in a woodpecker hole or birdhouse.
Eggs - 3 to 7, pale blue or white. Incubation 13 to 16 days, by female only. Young leave the nest 15 to 20 days after hatching.
Food - Insects, spiders, and berries. |
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Reference source: "North American Birds" Reader's Digest
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