Nebraska Ornithologists' Union

Nebraska Bird Review
Date of this Version
3-2025
Document Type
Article
Citation
Nebraska Bird Review, volume 93, number 1, March 2025, pp. 23–30.
Abstract
The following seven pages show examples of this year’s theme: birds feeding or carrying food.
Osprey with striped bass
Spotted Sandpiper with beetle
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher with insect
Male Pine Grosbeak with green ash seeds
Merlin eating sparrow
Whooping Crane carrying ear of corn
Yellow-billed Cuckoo with harvestman spider
Black-billed Magpie eating grain
Red-tailed Hawk with plains garter snake
Summer Tanager with hackberry emperor butterfly
Cattle Egret with bullfrog
Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk eating garter snake
Red-breasted Merganser eating fish
Juvenile White Ibis eating unidentified item
Bohemian Waxwing eating crab apples
Rose-breasted Grosbeak eating sunflower seeds
Loggerhead Shrike eating dragonfly
Yellow-crowned Night Heron eating insect
Cedar Waxwing with highbush cranberries
Lesser Yellowlegs eating worms
American Robin with mulberry
Northern Flicker feeding young
Lark Sparrow with grasshoppers
Female Dickcissel with yellow garden spider
House Finches on safflower seed feeder
Red Crossbill with sunflower seed
Field Sparrow eating Indiangrass
Blue-headed Vireo with female crane fly
Black-capped Chickadee with small caterpillars
Indigo Bunting with caterpillar
Northern Shrike eating a mouse
Ruby-throated Hummingbird on feeder
Common Nighthawk
Rare bilateral gynandromorph Northern Cardinal
Connecticut Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Eastern Kingbird
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Comments
Published by the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union, Inc.