{"id":32700,"date":"2022-02-24T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=32700"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:50:35","slug":"top-ten-birds-that-stay-in-canada-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/top-10\/top-ten-birds-that-stay-in-canada-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Birds That Winter in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outdoor areas in your neighbourhood don\u2019t need to look empty in the winter. You can help fill them with animal life by setting up a winter bird feeder! Although many birds migrate south in the fall, several species live in Canada year-round, toughing it out all winter long. You can help these birds out by accepting the <b>For the Birds Mission<\/b> and building your own bird feeder!<\/p>\n<p>To find out what birds you might see at your winter feeder check out this list of the top ten bird species that stick around for the winter. Since some species tend to be picky eaters, we have listed them based on their favourite types of seeds and nuts.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Black oil sunflower seeds<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">10. Black-capped chickadees<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32701  aligncenter\" title=\"Black capped chickadee\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-capped-chickadee.jpg\" alt=\"Black capped chickadee\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-capped-chickadee.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-capped-chickadee-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9. White-breasted nuthatches<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32703 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-breasted-nuthatch.jpg\" alt=\"white breasted nuthatch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-breasted-nuthatch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-breasted-nuthatch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">8. Finches (house, purple)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32704 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/purple-finch.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Finch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/purple-finch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/purple-finch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">7. Northern cardinals<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32705 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cardinal.jpg\" alt=\"cardinal\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cardinal.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cardinal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">6. Blue jays (also really like cracked corn)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32706 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-jay.jpg\" alt=\"Blue jay\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-jay.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-jay-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Nyjer seeds<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">5. American goldfinches<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32708 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldfinch-male.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldfinch-male.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldfinch-male-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">4. Common redpolls (if you have birch trees nearby common redpolls will eat birch seeds too)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32709 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/redpoll.jpg\" alt=\"Common Redpoll\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/redpoll.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/redpoll-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Suet<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">3. White-breasted nuthatches<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32710 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-brested-nuthatch.jpg\" alt=\"white brested nuthatch\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-brested-nuthatch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-brested-nuthatch-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-brested-nuthatch-548x420.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-brested-nuthatch-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">2. Brown creepers<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32711 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-creeper.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Creeper\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-creeper.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-creeper-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Cedar berries<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1. Cedar waxwings<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32712 aligncenter\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cedar-waxwings.jpg\" alt=\"cedar waxwings\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cedar-waxwings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cedar-waxwings-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Bird Feeder Tip! Try to avoid using seed mixes that contain millet because some birds won\u2019t eat millet, which means the seeds will geminate as weeds on the ground the next spring. Black oil sunflower seeds (not striped sunflower seeds) and suet will usually attract the largest diversity of birds to your winter feeder.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Have you spotted any birds in your neighbourhood? Comment below to share your bird sightings!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Look for For the Birds in the Mission section in the Earth Rangers App!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/for-the-birds-tile-image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589907\" width=\"226\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/for-the-birds-tile-image.png 435w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/for-the-birds-tile-image-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Generously Supported By<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-1024x598.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-582444\" width=\"256\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-1024x598.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-696x406.png 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-1392x812.png 1392w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-1068x623.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK-720x420.png 720w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASHGROVE_CRH_AshGrove_CRH_BLK.png 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can help these birds out by building your own bird feeder and filling it with tasty treats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,676,411,931],"tags":[62,335,422],"class_list":{"0":"post-32700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allbirds","8":"category-for-the-birds-mission","9":"category-top-10","10":"category-all","11":"tag-birds","12":"tag-top-ten","13":"tag-winter"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}