Proliferation

Birds are the main culprit in fostering the proliferation of this invasive species.  Here is a list of 30 birds that eat the fruit of the Chinese Tallowtrees:

1. Mourning Dove
2. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
3. Yellow-Bellied Woodpecker
4. Downy Woodpecker
5. Northern Flicker
6. Eastern Phoebe
7. Blue Jay
8. American Crow
9. Fish Crow
10. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
11. Eastern Bluebird
12. American Robin
13. Gray Catbird
14. Northern Mockingbird
15. Brown Thrasher
16. European Starling
17. Yellow-rumped Warbler
18. Pine Warbler
19. Eastern Towhee
20. Fox Sparrow
21. Song Sparrow
22. White-throated Sparrow
23. Northern Cardinal
24. Red-winged Blackbird
25. Rusty Blackbird
26. Common Grackle
27. Baltimore Oriole
28. Purple Finch
29. House Finch
30. American Goldfinch

Birds have many other sources of food that won’t compound the problem of Tallowtree proliferation.  This UGA Cooperative Extension article about “Attracting Birds to your Backyard” provides some very good alternative food sources for birds:  http://extension.uga.edu/publications/files/pdf/C 976_2.PDF