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This practical guide explains how to build and maintain nesting boxes for common native birds, describing which species readily use artificial homes and the design features that attract them. It covers suitable materials, exterior finishes, precise box dimensions, placement and mounting, feeding devices, and seasonal care, and includes detailed plates and drawings of proven house types for bluebirds, robins, wrens, woodpeckers, nuthatches, swallows, titmice, and chickadees. Instructions for organizing school or community bird-house contests and exhibits are also provided.
These birds, although insignificant in size, have enormous appetites and feed chiefly on small insects and their eggs that wholly escape the search of larger birds. This bird, or some of its sub-species, occupies the whole of the United States north of the latitude of Washington and extends into Canada.
In the eastern portion of the country the best known and most widely distributed species is the common black capped chickadee. Fig. 3 shows a chickadee feeding from the hand.