Shrub · Opuntia engelmannii
Prickly pear for backyard birds
Fruit and seed plus nest sites for Cactus Wrens.
- Scientific name
- Opuntia engelmannii
- Plant type
- Shrub
- What birds get from it
- fruit and berries, seed
- Native in
- 6 US states, 0 Canadian provinces/territories
- Bird species supported
- 108
Birds most often fed by Prickly pear
Counted across every state and province where Prickly pear is native and the bird is present:
- Cactus Wren — 12 regions
- American Goldfinch — 6 regions
- House Finch — 6 regions
- Mourning Dove — 6 regions
- American Robin — 6 regions
- Dark-eyed Junco — 6 regions
- Song Sparrow — 6 regions
- Chipping Sparrow — 6 regions
- Northern Flicker — 6 regions
- Red-winged Blackbird — 6 regions
- Pine Siskin — 6 regions
- Gray Catbird — 6 regions