Being a species so tolerant of humans many of us are very familiar with this colourful songbird. Its favored habitat is forest edges where it perches high in a tall hardwood tree and the males become very vocal in the spring attempting to get attention from the females.
They tend to forage alone in the denser foliage of trees where they hop and flit throughout the leaves foraging on various insects including spiders and their favored caterpillars. They will also dine on fruit and sip nectar.
The Dutch Elm disease decimated their favored tree for nesting so they have adapted to using other species including sycamore and cottonwood where a mated pair will raise 4 or 5 young per season.

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON D850
Exposure:	0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture:	f/8.0
ISO Speed:	1600
Focal Length:	600 mm
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