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Seven types of plants for bird habitat Conifers -- Evergreen trees and shrubs such as pines, spruces, firs, arborvitae, and junipers. Provide shelter, nesting sites, and food (fruits and seeds). Grasses and Legumes -- Provide cover for ground-nesting birds (if not mowed during nesting season) and seeds for food. Nectar-producing Plants -- Attract hummingbirds (especially flowers with tubular red corollas) and orioles. Summer-fruiting Plants -- Provide food during the nesting season. Various species of cherry, chokecherry, honeysuckle (native), raspberry, seviceberry, blackberry, blueberry, mulberry and elderberry. Fall-fruiting plants -- Important both for migratory birds building up fat reserves before migration and nonmigratory birds that need to enter the winter season in good physical condition. Dogwoods, mountain ash, winter-berries, cottoneasters and buffalo-berries. Winter-fruiting Plants -- Fruits remain attached to the plants long after they ripen in the fall. Glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and "red splendor" crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumacs, American highbush cranberry, eastern and European wahoo, Virginia creeper, and Chinaberry. Nut and Acorn Plants -- Oaks, hickories, buckeyes, chestnuts, butternuts, walnuts and hazels. Also contribute to good nesting habitat. (adapted from For the Birds, a pamphlet produced by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
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