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Do cardinal eat seeds

Updated: 8/9/2023
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Yes. I've seen them feeding on the ground beneath my feeder filled with sunflower seeds.

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Cardinals eat a variety of wild and "feeder" seeds, including sunflower, safflower and most other seeds in basic wild bird seed mixes. In warm seasons they also eat insects and worms and feed their babies mainly an insectivore diet. They will eat suet in the winter if it is located near a perch such as a deck rail or tree branch or on the ground where they can comfortably feed from it. They don't seem to hang like woodpeckers do on the cage suet feeders. They also are opportunistic and I have personally seen them eating dry cat food that I have put out for some feral cats. You will notice cardinals are usually the last birds to finish up eating at dusk and one of the first birds at feeders early in the morning, often before sunrise.

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The beautiful red and black bird, known as the Cardinal, are a favorite of bird lovers everywhere. Their diet consists of seed, grain, insects, fruit, and even the sap of trees.

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They like Sunflower seeds specifically black oil sunflower seeds the most, but they will eat millet or mixed seed. Rarely do they eat suet (fat from cows).

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