Many kinds of birds will be frequent visitors to your backyard feeders if you offer them a steady supply of their favorite seeds. This is especially true in winter when natural food sources are less ...

Bird seed is one of the most popular and accessible ways to attract beautiful birds to your yard. It's affordable, widely available, and easy to use. The most common seeds attract familiar backyard ...

One of the highlights of summer is watching and enjoying wild birds in your garden. As nature's bug control, birds are a natural companion to any yard. Watching the antics of a goldfinch feeding or a ...

Arizona boasts a bounty bird species, some that can been seen year-round and others that visit in the winter as they migrate from colder areas of the country. With the help of Jon Friedman with the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The last Backyard Bird Count found that 52 ...

Back in the early 1900s, a magazine called Bird Lore was "published for the Audubon Societies." It contained field notes, bird club news and bird observations. I remember a statement about feeding ...

Q: I have two bird-feeder questions: Are the inexpensive mixes worth getting? And if we want to have cardinals, what kind of seed should we have? A: For a number of years, I would purchase safflower ...

A pair of American Goldfinches (Cardualis tristis) hang upside-down as they feed on thistle seeds from a bird feeder. The feeder is designed to encourage other birds that can't hang upside-down to eat ...

Backyard bird feeders give Hoosiers a front row seat to enjoy the state’s songbirds while allowing chickadees, finches, cardinals and other species to supplement their foraged diets. Many retailers ...

According to a 2016 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report, 57.2 million Americans age 16 and older feed wild birds around their homes each year. They spend a total of around $4 billion on bird food ...

Editor’s note: The following column was originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader on March 19, 2005. A STRAFFORD reader wrote: “We enjoy feeding wild birds the year-round and have some ...