Assertion: northern cardinal | /r/CapableOf | eat 51 kinds of beetles
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text: During this time, the male looks for food and feeds the female by putting the food into its mate’s bill as if kissing each other.11.Cardinals were popular in the 1800s as cage birds mainly because of their bright red color and capacity to sing different songs.12.The Migratory Bird Treaty Act which was passed in 1918 protects the cardinals and has prohibited their sale.13.Cardinals are also known as red birds and Virginia nightingales.14.A study has shown that northern cardinals eat 51 kinds of beetles, four types of grasshoppers, termites, ants, flies, dragonflies and 12 kinds of homoptera which includes leaf hoppers, cicadas and aphids.15.Bird banding efforts have helped increased the population of cardinals over the years.