Selecting a bird feeder should be an easy task, however, there are an increasing number of choices of feeders, and many companies are designing feeders to “attract” a specific species. To complicate matters, an increasing variety of choices of bird feed are commercially available.

Feeling the burden of too many choices? The two charts accessible from the links below outline the more common backyard birds, which seed preferences they tend to have, and the preferred feeder to offer seed for each species grouping.

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