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along rivers and streams. There the sunlight penetrated. It was only in those tangles that Cardinals were found. A thicket was and still is their preferred habitat for courting, nesting and finding food. The brightness of Cardinals did not illuminate the ancient forest of oaks, maples, and hickories.
In the struggle to clear the land to let in the light for crops, Europeans made themselves Americans. Shrubs and vines grew up around log cabins and in the clearings. There Cardinals established themselves and declared territories through rich and penetrating songs. Today, the Virginia Redbird thrives among the ornamentals we plant around houses and businesses.
The red cedar, so much a party of the Virginia countryside, does not succeed in dense shade; light in required for Juniperus virginiana to march across fields and define hedgerows of catbriar, honeysuckle and multiflora rose. In these tangles Cardinals build their nests and raise their
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