While walking in
Central Park, I came upon this male Northern
cardinal (above) attempting to open a peanut. A nearby female cardinal poking at a peanut also captured my attention.
She can be seen in the next set of images.
According to many sources including, BIRDWATCHING HQ, cardinals are "classified as a granivorous animals because they live on a diet consisting of mostly seeds. Their short, stout, cone-shaped beaks are specially designed to crack open the hulls on seeds and shells on nuts."
In volume one of my book series, Words In Our Beak, (pictured below) Cam, the narrator of the series out that cracking shells is good for their beaks.
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