Birds that eat eggshells: Any bird eating your seed, as well as purple martin and barn and tree swallow. Serving suggestion: Bake clean shells at 250 degrees for 15 minutes. Crush and set out in a ...

Safflower seeds are a good option for a single-seed bird feeder. Some of the birds that eat safflower seeds include the black-capped chickadee, house finch, indigo bunting, mourning dove, northern ...

Birds eat a wide variety of seeds, berries, fruit, insects and much more. Some even will hang out in your backyard if you provide safflower seeds.

Your backyard birds are always hungry. Here are a few ideas from your pantry that don’t involve bird seed. You can feed foods that are high in fat.

Your backyard birds are always hungry. Here are a few ideas from your pantry that don’t involve bird seed. You can feed foods that are high in fat. Food at the bird feeder can attract animals ...

Sunflower is the seed that is favored by most backyard birds. Cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, nuthatches, finches, blue jays, grosbeaks and even woodpeckers like sunflower.

Neonics—pesticides introduced to plants at the seed stage—act like an appetite suppressant for birds, making them lose weight within hours. White-crowned sparrows like this one are among the ...

A single neonic-coated seed is enough to kill a songbird. While birds need insects most from birth through the time when first fledging the nest, 96% of bird species require insects at some point ...

Seed dispersal. Birds that eat fruit “deposit” seeds in new places. You have probably seen finches or robins eating fruit and noticed their deposits on your windshield or elsewhere.