The Scarlet Tanager and Summer and Summer Tanager are aggressive towards one another where their range overlaps. At your feeder you may see mate-feeding, a highlight of a relationship of a pair of breeding cardinals that can occur as often as four times a minute. The male takes a seed, hops over to the female, and the two momentarily touch beaks as she takes the food. This continues through the egg-laying and incubation process. Both male and female sing.
Cardinals prefer to eat sunflower seed, safflower seed, and cracked corn.
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