Birds Using White Pine
for Food, Cover, and/or Nests
(Pinus strobus)



Bird Species
(Scientific & Common Names)


Accipiter cooperii # §
(Cooper's Hawk)

Aix sponsa *
(Wood Duck)

Bombycilla cedrorum *
(Cedar Waxwing)

Cardinalis cardinalis * # §
(Northern Cardinal)

Certhia americana * #
(Brown Creeper)

Columba livia *
(Rock Pigeon)

Ectopistes migratorius * **
(Passenger Pigeon)

Zenaida macroura * # §
(Mourning Dove)

Cyanocitta cristata # §
(Blue Jay)

Junco hyemalis * #
(Dark-eyed Junco)

Pipilo erythrophthalmus * #
(Eastern Towhee)

Spizella passerina * # §
(Chipping Sparrow)

Zonotrichia albicollis * #
(White-throated Sparrow)

Coccothraustes vespertinus * # §
(Evening Grosbeak)

Haemorhous mexicanus * #
(House Finch)

Haemorhous purpureus * # §
(Purple Finch)

Loxia curvirostra * # §
(Red Crossbill)

Loxia leucoptera * # §
(White-winged Crossbill)

Pinicola enucleator * # §
(Pine Grosbeak)

Spinus pinus * # §
(Pine Siskin)

Spinus tristis *
(American Goldfinch)

Quiscalus quiscula * # §
(Common Grackle)

Sturnella magna *
(Eastern Meadowlark)

Toxostoma rufum * # §
(Brown Thrasher)

Colinus virginianus *
(Bobwhite Quail)

Baeolophus bicolor * # §
(Tufted Titmouse)

Poecile atricapillus * # §
(Black-capped Chickadee)

Poecile carolinensis * # §
(Carolina Chickadee)

Setophaga citrina §
(Hooded Warbler)

Setophaga coronata # §
(Yellow-rumped Warbler)

Setophaga dominica # §
(Yellow-throated Warbler)

Setophaga fusca # §
(Blackburnian Warbler)

Setophaga magnolia # §
(Magnolia Warbler)

Setophaga pinus * # §
(Pine Warbler)

Meleagris gallopavo * #
(Wild Turkey)

Phasianus colchicus *
(Ring-necked Pheasant)

Dryocopus pileatus * §
(Pileated Woodpecker)

Melanerpes carolinus * §
(Red-bellied Woodpecker)

Picoides villosus * §
(Hairy Woodpecker)

Sphyrapicus varius § ¶
(Yellow-bellied Sapsucker)

Sitta canadensis * # §
(Red-breasted Nuthatch)

Sitta carolinensis * # §
(White-breasted Nuthatch)

Thryothorus ludovicianus *
(Carolina Wren)

Hylocichla mustelina # §
(Wood Thrush)

Turdus migratorius # §
(American Robin)



* eats seeds, ** extinct species
# uses this tree for protective cover
§ uses this tree for nesting habitat
¶ drills holes in bark & sucks sap

Sources: DeGraaf (2002), Schorger (1955),
Lewis (1993), Bielefeldt & Rosenfeld (2001)

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