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  • From: "Dylan Ford" <dford@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sumac fruit question
  • Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:31:01 -0400


From: "Jim Fruth"
Subject: [NAFEX] Sumac fruit question


> What eats Sumac berries? Is there a bird that used to eat Sumac
berries
> that is now extinct?
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN 56472


FROM: http://www.for-wild.org/land/wibirdpl.html

Sumacs (Rhus spp.):

Smooth Sumac (R. glabra) - At least 3l species eat the fruits, especially
the Gray Catbird, Wood Thrush,and Eastern Bluebird.
Staghorn Sumac (R.. hirta; typhina) - 21 species eat the fruit , including
Red-eyed Vireo and American Robin.


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