These birds, known as neotropical migrants, nest throughout North America and winter in Mexico and Central America. They depend upon large blocks of undisturbed forest and continuous tree corridors, or greenways, for their survival. Evergreens that bear cones are called conifers. Their tiny seeds and needles are favored by titmice, chickadees and some finches. Junipers and cedars produce nutritious berries, eaten by cedar waxwings and purple finches, while robins, sparrows and mockingbirds nest in them.
Pines provide favorite nesting sites for mourning doves and roosting places for robins.
Some familiar deciduous trees in the Bay watershed that provide food and nesting sites include the black cherry, red mulberry, red maple, sugar maple, river birch, flowering dogwood, American beech, black gum and many oaks. The acorns produced by oaks provide a reliable, abundant food source. Squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, foxes, wood ducks, mallards, quail, blue jays and woodpeckers enjoy acorns during fall and winter when other food is scarce. Other varieties of nut-producing trees important to wildlife friends include hickories, walnuts, hazelnuts and beeches. Fruit-bearers like the wild cherry and holly attract wildlife too.