Habitat
They like man made habitats some of which include buildings, lawns, small conifers, barns, stables, and urban areas. They can also live in a wide variety of areas such as dry desert, desert grassland, chaparral, oak savannah, streamsides, and open coniferous forests. They have many different types of nesting sites including deciduous trees, coniferous trees, cactus, rock ledges, street lamps, ivy, hanging planters, and nests left by other birds. The nest is typically made out of leaves, twigs, wool, string, feathers, and other such material.
They eat mostly plant materials such as seeds, buds, and fruits. A few of these are wild mustard seeds, knotweed, thistle, mulberry, poison oak, cactus, cherries, apricots, peaches, pears, plums, strawberries, blackberries, and figs. At feeders they prefer black oil sunflower.