Tree · Magnolia grandiflora
Southern magnolia for backyard birds
Red seeds in fall cones feed mockingbirds and woodpeckers.
- Scientific name
- Magnolia grandiflora
- Plant type
- Tree
- What birds get from it
- fruit and berries
- Native in
- 9 US states, 0 Canadian provinces/territories
- Bird species supported
- 41
Birds most often fed by Southern magnolia
Counted across every state and province where Southern magnolia is native and the bird is present:
- Gray Catbird — 16 regions
- Northern Cardinal — 9 regions
- Eastern Bluebird — 9 regions
- House Finch — 9 regions
- Purple Finch — 9 regions
- American Robin — 9 regions
- White-throated Sparrow — 9 regions
- Northern Flicker — 9 regions
- Pileated Woodpecker — 9 regions
- Orchard Oriole — 9 regions
- Eastern Towhee — 9 regions
- Northern Mockingbird — 9 regions