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Attracting Birds to your garden, your yard, or your windowsill |
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birdbath at the least (it can be homemade)
Preferably dripping water as birds are attracted to the sound. You can
make your own dripper by using a large plastic jug with a small hole punched
in it & suspending it above your birdbath.
Birds love a slow sprinkler. In the garden, I've noticed it really
attracts lots of birds as they like to bathe in oscillating waters. Hummingbirds,
goldfinch, titmouses, robins, black-capped chickadees & more.
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mixed variety of trees, shrubs, vines, grasses & wildflowers is best
if you have the space. Native species that produce fruit are good.
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| Botanical name | Common name | Birds attracted |
| Aesculus species | Buckeye | Hummingbirds feed on early nectar |
| Amelanchier species | Juneberries, sarvisberries | Orioles, tanagers, bluebirds and towhees |
| Ampelopsis species | Peppervine | Robins, mockingbirds, catbird, chickadee |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walking stick | Thrushes, orioles, mockingbirds & vireos |
| Aronia arbutifolia | red chokeberry | Meadowlark, catbirds, cedar waxwing and |
| Aronia melanocarpa | black chokeberry | Wild turkeys, jays, mockingbirds |
| Callicarpa americana | Purple beautyberry | Robins, cardinals, mockingbirds, Bobwhites, bluebirds, cedar waxwings & thrushes |
| Callicarpa americana lactea | White beautyberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | Musclewood, blue beech | Ruffled grouse, wood duck, Myrtle warblers |
| Carya illinoensis | Native pecan | Grouse, wild turkeys, jays & woodpeckers |
| Castanea pumila | Allegheny chinkapin | Wild turkeys, jays, woodpeckers |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | White breasted nuthatch, |
| Celastrus scandens | American bittersweet | At least 15 species of birds eat the fruit |
| Ceonothus americana | New Jersey Tea | quail |
| Ceonothus ovatus | Inland NJ tea / Red root | wood duck and quail |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush | Hummingbirds catch insects on this shrub |
| Celtis tenufolia | Dwarf hackberry | Bluebirds, fox sparrows, phoebes & more |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud | Carolina chickadee, |
| Clethra acuminata | Cinnamonbark clethra | Hummingbirds |
| Clethra alnifolia | Summersweet | |
| Cocculus caroliniana | Carolina snailseed vine | Brown thrasher, eastern phoebe, robins |
| Cornus alternaefolia | Pagoda dogwood | More than 90 species of birds feed on Dogwood fruits incl. vireos, white-throated sparrows, bluebirds, indigo buntings, cardinals, kingbirds, thrushes and many warblers; other birds hunt for insects in their bark. |
| Cornus amomum | Pale dogwood | |
| Cornus drummondii | Rough leaved dogwood | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood | |
| Cornus obliqua | silky dogwood | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood | |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut | Downy woodpecker, wild turkeys, jays |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | Grouse, wild turkeys, woodpeckers & jays |
| Forestiera neomexicana | Desert olive | Quail, mallards and wood ducks |
| Fraxinus quadrangulata | Blue ash | Wood duck, evening grosbeak, purple finch |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Wild hydrangea | Wild turkeys, chickadee, Carolina wren |
| Ilex opaca | American holly | Waxwings, catbirds, bluebirds, robins, hermit thrush & mockingbirds enjoy holly fruit. |
| Ilex verticillata | Winterberry holly | |
| Juglans cinerea | Butternut / white walnut | Carolina wrens, nuthatches & chickadees |
| Juniperus asheii | Ash's juniper | Blue bird, catbird, evening grosbeak, Hermit thrush, Myrtle warbler, crossbill & waxwings |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar | |
| Lindera benzoin | spicebush | Wood thrush, veery & at least 15 species |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweet gum | Chicadees, towhee, carolina wren, juncos |
| Lirodendron tulipifera | tulip poplar | Purple finch, house finch, hummingbird |
| Lonicera sempervirens | trumpet honeysuckle | Hummingbird, bluebird & finches |
| Magnolia acuminata | Cucumber tree | Red-eyed vireos, American redstart, towhees, robins, ruffled grouse, wild turkeys, Northern flicker, pileated woodpecker, crested flycatcher & bluejays. |
| Magnolia macrophylla | Bigleaf magnolia | |
| Magnolia tripetala | Umbrella magnolia | |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweet bay magnolia | |
| Mahonia trifoliata | Algarita / agarita | Cedar waxwings, chickadees & robins |
| Myrica cerifera | Southern Wax Myrtle | Chickadees, vireos, bobwhites, myrtle warble |
| Nyssa sylvatica | Black gum | Rosebreasted grosbeak & cedar waxwings |
| Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood | Wild turkeys, bobwhites & grouse |
| Persea borbonia | Red bay | Eastern bluebird, robin and bobwhite |
| Physocarpus opulifolius | ninebark | Ducks, geese, doves & shorebirds |
| Prunus carolinianum | Carolina cherry laurel | 80 species inc. bluebirds, tanagers & orioles |
| Quercus coccinea | Scarlet oak | Jays, chickadees, quail, turkeys, grosbeaks, cardinals and grouse are some of the birds that eat acorns along with the other critters that love them too. Nesting sites are widely used in oaks. |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur oak | |
| Quercus nigra | Water oak | |
| Quercus palustris | Pin oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Live oak | |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant sumac | More than 95 species have been observed eating sumac berries incl. woodpeckers, chickadees & tanagers. |
| Rhus glabra | Winged sumac | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth sumac | |
| Staphylea trifolia | Bladdernut | American goldfinch, pine siskins |
| Viburnum dentatum | Arrowwood | Robins, grosbeaks, thrushes, waxwings, catbirds, thrashers, towhees, bobwhites, cuckoos, cardinals & bluebirds |
| Viburnum nudum | Shonny haw | |
| Viburnum prunifolium | Blackhaw | |
| Vitis riparia | Riverbank grape | Tennessee warbler, red bellied woodpecker |
| Zanthoxylem clava-herculis | Prickley ash | Red eyed vireo and bobwhites |
01/30/07