House Finches Eating Watermelon
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The house finches (Carpoducus mexicanus frontalis) of the San Joaquin Valley are certainly developing a great fondness for watermelon. On July 7 and 8, 1930, I watched them at a feeding station thirty miles north of Bakersfield. During the morning hours, and still more during the afternoon hours, there was a steady stream of these birds to some watermelon rinds for the ripe watermelon pulp still present. Most of these feasting birds were young of the year, but there was also a fair number of both adult males and adult females. At first I thought the birds were attracted because of thirstiness; but soon after that, I noted that pulp that was almost dry was taken as well.
Long Beach, California, July 16, 1960
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Skinner, M. P.
(1930)
"House Finches Eating Watermelon,"
Condor: Vol. 32
:
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6
, Article 10.
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol32/iss6/10