Feeders and Food for Attracting Birds

Birds are attracted to bird feeders by the type of feeder and the food in it.

If the feeder mimics that feeding habits of the bird, it will attract them to your backyard.

Food that is similar to their natural diet also will bring them to your backyard habitat.

Here is a list of the feeder types and foods that will bring assorted birds into close view.

Tray or Platform Feeder -- with Corn
Starlings, House Sparrows, Grackles, Jays, Juncos, Bobwhite, Quail, Doves, Ring-necked Pheasants, White-throated Sparrows

Platform Feeder or Tube Feeder and Tray - with Peanuts
Cardinals, Grackles, Titmice, Starlings, Jays

Niger Thistle Feeder with Tray
Goldfinches, House Finches, Purple Finches, Redpolls, Pine Siskins, Doves, Chickadees, Song Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos

Nectar Feeder
Hummingbirds, Orioles, Cardinals, Tanagers, Woodpeckers, Finches, Thrushes, White-throated Sparrows

Fruit
Orioles, Tanagers, Mockingbirds, Bluebirds, Thrashers, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Jays, Starlings, Thrushes, Cedar, Waxwings, Yellow-breasted Chats

Hanging Suet Feeder
Woodpeckers, Wrens, Chickadees, Nuthatches, Kinglets, Thrashers, Creepers, Cardinals, Starlings

Peanut Butter Suet
Woodpeckers, Goldfinches, Juncos, Cardinals, Thrushes, Jays, Kinglets, Bluebirds, Wrens, Starlings

Hanging Peanut Feeder
Woodpeckers, Chickadees, Titmice Information courtesy U.S. Wildlife Service publication: For the Birds.http://pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/forbirds/forbird.htm

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