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10 Songbird Christmas Ornaments from the Danbury Mint
- Sold Winning Bid: $49.00
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- High Bidder: ted
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Lot # N288
System ID # 19498171
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Description
10 Songbird Christmas Ornaments from the Danbury Mint
- (10) Birds
- With Collection Box
- Documentation Card For Each Bird
- Each Has Gold Hanging Ring With Official Danbury Mint Tag
Purple Martin
- Male is glossy blue-black, while the female is duller blue-black with a grayish chest.
- Well-known for its willingness to nest in birdhouses.
- Caches both its food and water mid-air by eating flying insects and skimming water surfaces.
- Will usually return to the same nesting site year after year.
Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Bluebirds are the state birds of both Idaho and Nevada.
- While male Mountain Bluebirds are sky blue, females are mostly a gray or brown color with blue highlights.
- Only female Mountain Bluebirds build nests.
- The male occasionally pretends to help, but the female quickly bats him away before getting it all done herself.
- Females lay up to seven eggs, but only one egg hatches each day.
House Finch
- House Finches feed their nestlings an exclusively vegetarian diet.
- Adult male House Finches are typically bright red, though some males are orange or yellow.
- Females favor the reddest males for breeding.
- House Finches can be found in every state in the USA.
Steller's Jay
- Named after Georg Steller, the man who first encountered these birds in Alaska in 1741.
- Steller's Jays are able to impersonate the noises made by many animals, including other birds, cats, dogs, some machinery, and even some barnyard animals.
- Frequently steal eggs and hatchlings from other birds' nests.
Black-Throated Blue Warbler
- The male and female of this species look so dissimilar from one another that they were initially classified as two distinct species.
- Females often breed with males other than their mates to improve the gene pool for their brood.
Black-Back Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Goldfinches often copy certain elements of other birds' songs.
- Males have two types of plumage: black-backed and green-backed.
- When courting, these birds touch bills in a type of “kiss.”
Western Kingbird
- Western Kingbirds perch or hover looking for food and then snatch their prey from the air or ground.
- Western Kingbirds build their nests in trees or on manmade objects such as telephone poles.
Mountain Chickadee
- Mountain Chickadees have good memories—they often store food when they have excess in the fall and retrieve it several months later.
- These birds are able to hang upside down so that they can better forage from the underside of branches, pinecones, and other objects.
Red-Breasted Sapsucker
- Red-Breasted Sapsuckers mostly eat tree sap, though they also eat insects and fruit.
- Other birds, especially hummingbirds, often follow Red-Breasted Sapsuckers around and drink the sap after the sapsucker has left the feeding holes.
Wood Thrush
- During migration, Wood Thrushes fly over the Gulf of Mexico in just one night.
- The male can sing over 50 different songs, and both sexes are able to sing two notes simultaneously by using two sections of their voice boxes.
Condition:
Good, No Damage, Chips or Wear
Size:
(10) Birds
3" X 2 1/2" X 2 1/2"