Birds Eating the Seeds
of Wheat
(Triticum aestivum)

Bird Names (Scientific & Common)

Aix sponsa (Wood Duck)

Anas acuta (Northern Pintail)

Anas crecca (Green-winged Teal)

Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)

Athya affinis (Lesser Scaup)

* Branta canadensis (Canada Goose)

Larus pipixcan (Franklin's Gull)

Rallus elegans (King Rail)

Grus canadensis (Sandhill Crane)

Colinus virginianus (Bobwhite Quail)

Meleagris gallopavo (Wild Turkey)

Perdix perdix (Gray Partridge)

Phasianus colchicus (Ring-necked Pheasant)

Tympanuchus cupido (Greater Prairie Chicken)

** Conuropsis carolinensis (Carolina Parakeet)

** Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger Pigeon)

Zenaida macroura (Mourning Dove)

Corvus brachyrhynchos (American Crow)

Cyanocitta cristata (Blue Jay)

Agelaius phoeniceus (Redwing Blackbird)

Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Bobolink)

Euphagus carolinus (Rusty Blackbird)

Molothrus ater (Cowbird)

Quiscalus quiscula (Common Grackle)

Sturnella magna (Eastern Meadowlark)

Sturnella neglecta (Western Meadowlark)

Sitta canadensis (Red-breasted Nuthatch)

Sitta carolinensis (White-breasted Nuthatch)

Eremophila alpestris (Horned Lark)

Passerina caerulea (Blue Grosbeak)

Passerina cyanea (Indigo Bunting)

Pheucticus ludovicianus (Rose-breasted Grosbeak)

Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)

Chondestes grammacus (Lark Sparrow)

*** Junco hyemalis (Slate-colored Junco)

Spizella pusilla (Field Sparrow)

Zonotrichia leucophrys (White-crowned Sparrow)

Zonotrichia querula (Harris Sparrow)

*** Calcarius lapponicus (Lapland Longspur)

*** Calcarius pictus (Smith's Longspur)

*** Plectrophenax nivalis (Snow Bunting)

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* also feeds foliage, ** extinct,
***eats seeds during winter primarily

Sources: Martin et al. (1951/1961),
Havera (1999), Bellrose (1942/1976),
Snyder (2004), Schorger (1955)

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