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Loons and Grebes
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Fish, frogs,
crabs, aquatic insects
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Cod liver oil,
raw lean beef, fish, frozen herring, night crawlers
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Swans and Geese
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Aquatic
vegetation, some grains
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Intermediate chicken
scratch, wild bird seed, bread
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Dabbling Ducks
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Vegetation,
grasses, wild celery, aquatic animal food, worms
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Chicken scratch,
bread, grass, ground beef, earthworms
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Diving Ducks
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Shrimp, mollusks,
crabs, small fish
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Bread, night
crawlers, bone meal, beef, cod liver oil
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Hawks
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Mice, rats,
rodents of all kinds, birds
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Lean strips of
beef, mice, milk, chicken, bone meal, cod liver oil
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Kestrels
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Grasshoppers,
insects, wasps, locusts, very occasionally small birds
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Beef strips,
mealworms, milk, grasshoppers, bone meal, mice
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Ospreys
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Fish
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Fish, beef
strips, chicken
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Bald Eagles
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Fish, rodents,
ducks, birds
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Fish, lean beef,
bone meal, cod liver oil, mice
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Golden Eagles
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Rodents, birds
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Beef chunks,
chicken, mice, bone meal
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Owls
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Rodents of all
kinds
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Milk, beef, mice,
rats, chicken, bone meal, cod liver oil
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Cuckoos
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Tent
caterpillars, worms, bugs, grasshoppers
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Bone meal, cod
liver oil, lean ground beef, beef strips, mealworms, bread
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Hummingbirds
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Nectar from
flowers, tiny insects
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Honey, sugar or
molasses in water in small vials
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Kingbirds,
Vireos, Nighthawks, Whip-poor-wills, Swifts, Flycatchers, Swallows
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Entirely
insectivorous, will have to be hand-fed since they catch food in the air
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Lean ground beef,
very small strips of raw beef, bread and milk mealworms, flies
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Kingfishers
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Fish, minnows,
crabs, frogs, locust, lizards
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Fish, beef
strips, night crawlers
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Woodpeckers,
Flickers, Sapsuckers
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Grubs, ants,
bores, beetles, berries in the winter
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Mealworms, bread
and milk, beef strips, suet, ground beef
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Larks
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Seeds,
grasshoppers, beetles, caterpillars
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Mealworms, wild
bird feed, bread
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Magpies, Crows,
Ravens
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Insects, acorns,
fruit, small birds
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Ground beef,
beef, chicken scratch, bread, hard-boiled eggs, bone meal, cod liver oil
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Jays
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Large insects,
some frogs, mice, acorns and sunflower seeds
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Ground beef,
hard-boiled eggs, sunflower seeds, peanuts, nuts
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Chats,
Chickadees, Titmice, Nuthatches, Towhees
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Pine seeds,
sunflower seeds, acorns, poison ivy, beetles, weevils, ants, other insects
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Shelled peanuts,
nuts, blueberries, apples, wild bird seed, sunflower seeds, suet
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Mockingbirds,
Starlings, Brown Thrashers, Warblers, Robins, Thrushes, Catbirds, Bluebirds,
Cedar Waxwings
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Holly, grapes,
cherries, sumac, pokeweed, Virginia creeper, cedar pyracantha, worms, ants,
beetles. Fruits in fall and winter.
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Apples, raisins,
sour cherries, bread, suet, ground beef, mealworms, earthworms
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Cowbirds,
Sparrows, Blackbirds, Meadowlarks
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Crickets,
insects, weed seeds
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Wild bird seed,
scratch, bread, suet, ground beef
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Orioles, Tanagers
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Caterpillars, ants,
spiders, wild fruits
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Apples, cherries,
blueberries, bread, ground beef, mealworms, suet
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Grosbeaks, Purple
Finches, Cardinals, Buntings, Crossbills
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Insects, bugs,
beetles, sunflower seeds, dogwood, sumac tree buds, fruits
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Mealworms, suet,
sunflower seeds, cherries, wild bird seed, bread
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Herons, Egrets,
Bitterns, Cranes, Rails, Plovers, Sandpipers, Phalaropes
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Crayfish, shrimp,
marine worms, frogs, insects, mice, shrews, snails, wild grasses, some grains
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Bread, beef
strips, night crawlers, chicken scratch, bone meal, cod liver oil
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Grouse, Doves,
Pheasants, Partridges, Pigeons, Turkeys, Bobwhites
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Mainly grain,
some summer and fall insects
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Chicken scratch,
wild bird seed, bread
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Woodcocks
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Mainly
earthworms, some grains, flies, beetles, spiders, caterpillars
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Earthworms, night
crawlers, beef strips, bone meal, cod liver oil
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