Common Elderberry

Game birds, squirrels and other rodents, and several
kinds of browsers feed on the fruit or foliage of
elderberry. Bears love to eat the elderberry fruits
while deer, elk, and moose browse on the stems and
foliage. The elderberries are important sources of
summer food for many kinds of songbirds. For
example, the western bluebird, indigo bunting,
common house finch, red-shafted flicker, ashthroated
flycatcher, black-headed grosbeak, scrub
jay, Stellar jay, ruby-crowned kinglet, mockingbird,
red-breasted nuthatch, Bullock’s oriole, hooded
oriole, song sparrow, white-crowned sparrow,
western tanager, California thrasher, russet-backed
thrush, brown towhee, Audubon warbler, cedar
waxwing, Lewis and Nuttall's woodpecker, wren-tit,
grouse, pheasant, and pigeons all eat elderberries.