Why Feed Birds

Choose the Food to Attract the Bird

• Black-Oil Sunflower Seeds (Feed the widest number of birds including Chickadees, Finches, Pine Siskins…)
• Striped Sunflower Seeds (harder, more restrictive for birds)
• Sunflower Seeds (shelled) – Reduce sunflower shell residue.)
• White Millet (Lazuli Buntings, Juncos and Sparrows)
• Milo (Pigeons, Jays & Doves)
• Nyjer Thistle (Am. Goldfinches, Pine Siskins, and Redpolls)
• Cracked Corn (Doves, Pheasants, Quail, Turkeys, ground-feeding birds)
• Suet (Purchase premixed with seeds, nuts, raisins… or make your own.)
• Peanuts (Jays)
• Oranges (Orioles, Tanagers)
• Sugar Water (1 part sugar to 4 parts water, Hummingbirds)

Read More From These References:

• Common Cache Valley Feeder Birds (checklist with pictures)
• Feeding Birds: A Quick Guide To Seed Types, All About Birds, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University,
  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/types-of-bird-seed-a-quick-guide/
• 8 Types of Birdseed for Outdoor Feeders and How to Choose One, Melissa Mayntz, About.com Birding/Wild Birds, http://birding.about.com/od/birdfeeders/ig/Types-of-Birdseed/ (Redirects)
• Wild About Utah Feeding Birds Archives: https://wildaboututah.org/tag/feeding-birds/
• To Feed or Not to Feed Wild Birds–Bird Feeders Can Be Sources of Joy — and Disease, Susan Morse, US FWS, https://www.fws.gov/story/feed-or-not-feed-wild-birds
• Make Your Home a Safe, Healthy Home for Birds, US FWS, https://www.fws.gov/story/2021-09/backyard-birds
• Bird feeding: backyard habitat for wildlife, US FWS, https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/document/id/1902/
• Backyard Birds (Powerpoint Presentation), US FWS, https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Backyard%20Birds.pdf
• The Herald Journal, Songbird trackers: USU researcher studying migration, survival factors of colorful lazuli buntings