Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests / Agriculture Handbook 511

by Virgil E. Scott; Keith E. Evans; David R. Patton; Charles P. Stone

Cover sketch: Saw-whet owl, by Bob Hines of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.

Cavity-Nesting Birds
of
North American Forests

Virgil E. Scott
Denver Wildlife Research Center

Keith E. Evans
North Central Forest Experiment Station

David R. Patton
Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station

Charles P. Stone
Denver Wildlife Research Center

Illustrated by
Arthur Singer

Agriculture Handbook 511
November 1977

Forest Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Scott, Virgil E., Keith E. Evans, David R. Patton, and Charles P. Stone. 1977. Cavity-nesting birds of North American forests. U.S. Dep. Agric., Agric. Handb. 511, 112 p.

Habitat, cavity requirements, and foods are described for 85 species of birds that nest in cavities in dead or decadent trees. Intensive removal of such trees would disastrously affect breeding habitat for many of these birds that help control destructive forest insects. Birds are illustrated in color; distributions are mapped.