Gold-winged woodpecker
Black throated bunting
Blue Bird
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Gold-winged woodpecker
"...the chief food of this species...is wood lice, and the young and larvae of
ants, of which he is so
immoderately fond, that I have frequently found his stomach distended with a
mass of these and
these only , as large nearly as a plumb. For the procuring of these insects,
nature has remarkably
fitted him...."
Blue Bird
"The blue bird, in summer and fall, is fond of frequenting open pasture fields;
and there perching
on the stalks of the great mullein, to look out for passing insects. A whole
family of them are
often seen thus situated, as if receiving lessons of dexterity from their more
expert parents, who
can espy a beetle crawling among the grass at a considerable distance,; and,
after feeding on it,
instantly resume their former position."
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