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| poetry lyrics:/ This distinctive American songbird/ Doesn't migrate, a won't-be-gone-long bird./ Courtship? Male brings gal seed;/ She'll find twigs that moms need -- / Red-tinged suit, "not cute"? You've got the wrong bird. |
Authors' Note: A male cardinal is seen in the video below, as it hops along a driveway. The songbird spends more time foraging on the ground, rather than in trees and shrubs. And although its diet, particularly items fed to nestlings, includes insects and other small animals, it is best known as a seed-eater, using its thick strong beak to break sunflower and safflower seeds. Twigs are one of the layers used by females to build their complex nests, usually in shrubbery rather than in taller trees.
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