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urban birds
Starlings and house sparrows aggressively compete with native species of birds for nesting cavities. Make bird house openings 1.5 inches in diameter or less to keep starlings out ... grass? Keeping your chimney capped and soffits and siding in good repair can reduce urban nest cavities often used by starlings, house sparrows, raccoons and others. Grackles feast in the short grass ...
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Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory Field Trip Photo Album: Parrots and Quetzals in Madera, Chihuahua
Imperials but are now known to use natural cavities and those excavated by flickers. The soft wood of Quaking Aspens is ideal for excavating nest cavities. Aspen is ... to enter the nest if observers are too conspicuous. Eared Quetzals also use the same large aspen trees preferred by Thick-billed Parrots. Though they seldom create their own cavities "from ...
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NMPIF Forests 3
(D. Arsenault pers. comm.) almost exclusively insectivorous; U.S. populations are highly migratory ... suitable habitat are not occupied in NM) maintain and recruit snags for nesting cavities, especially in deciduous trees maintain health of acorn woodpecker, northern flicker, and sapsucker ...
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Barn Owl - WDNR
Woodlot management which removes large dead trees that have good nest cavities also reduces the number of possible nesting places. Even though barn-owls help farmers by ... to July. Incubation: 30-34 days. Young fledge at 8 weeks of age. Nest: Natural and man-made cavities are used for nesting. Management Considerations: Loss of grassy habitats due to development ...
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Ornate box turtle – three-toed box turtle
Females dig nest cavities in the ground into which they deposit 2-6 eggs. The nest cavity is filled and then concealed with plant debris. The ... at warmer temperatures. Hatchlings emerge in the fall but will often continue to use their nest cavity as an overwintering site. Overwintering As air temperature cools in the fall, box turtles ...
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Ornate box turtle – three-toed box turtle
Females dig nest cavities in the ground into which they deposit 2-6 eggs. The nest cavity is filled and then concealed with plant debris. The ... at warmer temperatures. Hatchlings emerge in the fall but will often continue to use their nest cavity as an overwintering site. Overwintering As air temperature cools in the fall, box turtles ...
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
Requires dead trees or trees with some soft wood for excavating nest cavities. Winter habitat: Orchards, parks, woodlands. Diet: Tree sap and the inner bark of © 2002 NNE ...
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Purple Martin Nest Replacements
Although martin parasites are not harmful to humans, nest ... the procedure for each nest to be replaced. You may find that some active nest cavities contain very little if ... cavities. A few may recognize a change in their nest and be mildly alarmed, but they will accept the change within a few minutes and resume feeding their young. Nest ...
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Building bird nest boxes
Building a bird nest box Small open-fronted nest-box & small-hole nesting birds Small open-fronted nest-box A variety of ... nest-box - Kestrel Kestrels do not construct nests of their own, but lay their eggs either in the old nests of crows, or in cavities ... nest as such, but lay their eggs on a layer of pellets which has accumulated in their roosting site. Such sites are deep spacious cavities ...
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Science and the Environment Bulletin: Woodpeckers Main Thread in Nest Web
Canada biologists shows that half the forest fauna in the region nest in tree holes, most of which have been excavated by these ... and the Red-Naped Sapsucker excavate 75 per cent of all cavities used by all species, and 90 per cent of those used ... experimental cut plots, in cooperation with forest companies, to test how nest-web structure shifts in response to different forest-cutting regimes. It ...
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