Birds Eating the Seeds
of Barnyard Grasses
(Echinochloa spp.)

Bird Names (Scientific & Common)

Aix sponsa (Wood Duck)

Anas acuta (Northern Pintail)

Anas americana (American Wigeon)

Anas clypeata (Northern Shoveler)

Anas crecca (Green-winged Teal)

Anas discors (Blue-winged Teal)

Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)

Anas rubripes (Black Duck)

Anas strepera (Gadwall)

Aythya affinis (Lesser Scaup)

Aythya americana (Redhead)

Aythya collaris (Ring-necked Duck)

*Branta canadensis (Canada Goose)

Porzana carolina (Sora)

Gallinago delicata (Wilson Snipe)

Meleagris gallopavo (Wild Turkey)

Tympanuchus cupido (Greater Prairie Chicken)

Zenaida macroura (Mourning Dove)

Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Bobolink)

Molothrus ater (Brown-headed Cowbird)

Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)

Melospiza lincolnii (Lincoln Sparrow)

Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)

**Calcarius pictus (Smith's Longspur)

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*also eats foliage & roots
**eats seeds primarily during winter

Sources: Martin et al. (1951/1961),
Havera (1999), Bellrose (1942/1976),
Schwartz (1945), DeVore et al. (2004),
Lewis (1993), Meanley (1956), Anderson (1959)

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