Tree · Sorbus americana
Mountain ash for backyard birds
Orange berry clusters feed waxwings and robins into winter.
- Scientific name
- Sorbus americana
- Plant type
- Tree
- What birds get from it
- fruit and berries
- Native in
- 18 US states, 7 Canadian provinces/territories
- Bird species supported
- 34
Birds most often fed by Mountain ash
Counted across every state and province where Mountain ash is native and the bird is present:
- Gray Catbird — 50 regions
- Purple Finch — 25 regions
- American Robin — 25 regions
- White-throated Sparrow — 25 regions
- Northern Flicker — 25 regions
- Pileated Woodpecker — 25 regions
- Cedar Waxwing — 25 regions
- Yellow-rumped Warbler — 25 regions
- Eastern Kingbird — 25 regions
- European Starling — 25 regions
- Scarlet Tanager — 25 regions
- Hermit Thrush — 25 regions
Mountain ash by state and province
Connecticut (29 birds)Georgia (27 birds)Maine (27 birds)Manitoba (25 birds)Maryland (28 birds)Massachusetts (28 birds)Michigan (29 birds)Minnesota (27 birds)New Brunswick (22 birds)New Hampshire (26 birds)New Jersey (31 birds)New York (32 birds)Newfoundland and Labrador (20 birds)North Carolina (29 birds)Nova Scotia (23 birds)Ontario (29 birds)Pennsylvania (30 birds)Prince Edward Island (19 birds)Quebec (26 birds)Rhode Island (28 birds)Tennessee (29 birds)Vermont (26 birds)Virginia (28 birds)West Virginia (28 birds)Wisconsin (29 birds)