Feeding Wild Birds Fruit - Which Species Eat Fruit
Which species of backyard birds eat fruits & berries. Try these in your feeders for something different!
- Apples, baked - bluebirds, American robins.
- Apples – One of our favorite foods for fruit and berry eating birds. It’s easy and effective. Over 45 species of birds will eat apples. Yellow breasted chat, common flickers, house finch, blue jay, mockingbirds, orioles, American robin, sparrow white crowned, thrasher curve billed, thrush hermit, orange crowned warbler orange crowned, waxwing cedar, hairy woodpecker, cactus wren.
- Blueberries - Over 80 species of birds eat blueberries including American robins, black-capped chickadees, common flickers, grackles, house sparrows, kingbird, many species of orioles, towhees, and tufted titmice.
- Bananas - indigo bunting, chat yellow breasted, house finch, gray jay, mockingbirds, starlings, tanager western, warbler Tennessee, hairy woodpecker, Carolina wren.
- Cantaloupe seeds – nuthatch white breasted, nuthatch red breasted, house sparrow.
- Cherries - American robins, blackbirds, black headed grosbeaks, bluebirds, blue jays, gray catbirds, cedar waxwings, common flickers, downy woodpeckers, grackles, hairy woodpeckers, hermit thrushes, house finches, house sparrows, Lewis woodpeckers, northern cardinals, northern mockingbirds, northern orioles, pine grosbeaks, red headed woodpeckers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, ruffed grouse, song sparrows, stellar jays, Townsend’s solitares, western tanagers, other tanagers, white crowned sparrows, white throated sparrows, wood thrushes.
- Crabapples frozen - Purple, American robin, cedar waxwing.
- Grapes – Over 90 species of birds eat grapes. American robin, bluebirds, blue jay, cedar waxwing, gray catbird, house finch, evening grosbeaks, grosbeak black headed, grosbeak rose breasted, gray jay, mockingbird, magpies, northern cardinals, hooded oriole, oriole northern Baltimore, scott’s oriole, stellar jays, western tanager, Carolina thrasher, brown thrasher, Swainson’s thrush, towhees, warblers, acorn woodpeckers and yellow-billed cuckoos.
- Oranges – catbird gray, doves, mockingbirds, oriole northern Baltimore, tanager scarlet, tanager summer, tanager western, thrasher brown, warbler yellow rumped myrtle, woodpecker red bellied.
- Plums - American robins, blackbirds, black headed grosbeaks, bluebirds, blue jays, gray catbirds, cedar waxwings, common flickers, downy woodpeckers, grackles, hairy woodpeckers, hermit thrushes, house finches, house sparrows, Lewis woodpeckers, northern cardinals, northern mockingbirds, northern orioles, pine grosbeaks, red headed woodpeckers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, ruffed grouse, song sparrows, stellar jays, Townsend’s solitares, western tanagers, other tanagers, white crowned sparrows, white throated sparrows, wood thrushes.
- Pumpkin seeds – chickadee, junco dark eyed, nuthatch white breasted, sparrow American tree, warbler yellow rumped.
- Raspberries & Blackberries - Over 140 species of birds eat them including American robins, blue jays, common flickers, fox sparrows, grackles, house sparrows, orchard orioles, red headed woodpeckers, tufted titmice, wood thrush, northern cardinals, northern mockingbirds, northern orioles, rose-breasted grosbeak, song sparrows and white throated sparrows.
- Strawberries – bluebirds, gray catbird, cedar waxwings, common flickers, grosbeak black headed, grosbeak rose breasted, jay blue, magpies, mockingbirds, robin American, Quail bobwhite, towhees, wood thrush.
- Watermelon rind – purple finch, grosbeaks, mockingbird, oriole hooded, warblers.
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