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"