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Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus) are the only predators that kill and eat skunks.
They will eat American Crows, both adults and young, nestling Ospreys, and even other owls.
Information from The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Red-eyed Vireos [Vireo olivaceus] are extremely common in the summer yet sometimes hard to spot. Luckily, they tend to call for hours.

“One enthusiastic Red-eyed Vireo was recorded singing more than 27,000 times in one day” - The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America.

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With an old nickname of Shitepoke (the name in reference to its fecal projectiles), Green Herons (Butorides virescens) use bait to catch fish, dropping insects, twigs or even feathers onto the water surface to lure them in.
Green Herons are beautiful small herons that can be hard to see because they blend in and stay [...]

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Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers [Sphyrapicus varius] visit our yard twice a year like clockwork, once in the spring and once in the fall. They are always a treat to watch, and always frequent our birch tree. Their foraging technique is what gives them their interesting name.

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker makes two kinds of holes in trees to harvest [...]

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According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, adult Least Flycatchers (Empidonax minimus) migrate to their wintering grounds before molting while the young ones molt before/during fall migration. Another neat fact is that a Least Flycatcher was found to have lined its nest with dragonfly wings.
Least Flycatcher

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