Many kinds of birds, as well as squirrels, chipmonks, and other small animals, eat pine cone seeds.
Seeds, especially the seeds contained in pine cones. The crossed bill helps them extract the seeds from the cone.
Woodpeckers with a good water source nearby
No they cannot.
Squirrels eat the seeds at the base of the scales near the pine cone's center.
they eat conifers, cones, pine cone, acorns
Mainly, goldfinches and pine siskins. They also relish sunflower seeds.
Spread the cone open & eat the seeds raw, roasted or dried. The seeds can also be ground & used as a type of flour for bread.
Squirrels, Eastern Chipmunks, Voles and mice eat pine needles and seeds. White-tailed deer, Eastern cottontails and beaver eat the bark. Several birds also eat pine seeds including the Pine Warbler, White-breasted Nuthatch and Black-capped Chickadee.
A type of pine cone that requires fire for the seeds to be dispersed from the cone
If you have a seed that is a tree seed, then it will grow into a tree. The corn plant is not a tree seed, but the peach seed is. The acorn is a tree seed, the pine cone is a collection of pine seeds. Now you get the point.
what do birds eat
These birds forage in trees, shrubs and weeds. They mainly eat seeds, plant parts and some insects. At feeders, they seem to prefer nyger (thistle) but I have seen them eat black-oil sunflower.