Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests
Reading edition
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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Scott, Virgil E., Keith E. Evans, David R. Patton, and Charles P. Stone.
1977. Cavity-nesting birds of North American forests. U.S. Dep. Agric., Agric. Handb. 511, 112 p.
Habitat, cavity requirements, and foods are described for 85 species of birds that nest in cavities in dead or decadent trees. Intensive removal of such trees would disastrously affect breeding habitat for many of these birds that help control destructive forest insects. Birds are illustrated in color; distributions are mapped.