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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