Backyard Bird Food Chart

The experts at Bird Watcher's Digest have compiled this informative food and seed chart to help you attract the birds that you want to your feeders.

Quail, pheasants

Cracked corn, millet, wheat, milo

Pigeons, doves

Millet, cracked corn, wheat, milo, niger, buckwheat, sunflower, baked goods

Roadrunner

Meat scraps, hamburger, suet

Hummingbirds

Plant nectar, small insects, sugar solution

Woodpeckers

Suet, meat scraps, sunflower hearts/seed, cracked corn, peanuts, fruits, sugar solution

Jays

Peanuts, sunflower, suet, meat scraps, cracked corn, baked goods

Crows, magpies, and nutcracker

Meat scraps, suet, cracked corn, peanuts, baked goods, leftovers, dog food

Titmice, chickadees

Peanut kernels, sunflower, suet, peanut butter

Nuthatches

Suet, suet mixes, sunflower hearts and seed, peanut kernels, peanut butter

Wrens, creepers

Suet, suet mixes, peanut butter, peanut kernels, bread, fruit, millet (wrens)

Mockingbirds, thrashers, catbirds

Halved apple, chopped fruits, baked goods, suet, nutmeats, millet (thrashers), soaked raisins, currants, sunflower hearts

Robins, bluebirds, other thrushes

Suet, suet mixes, mealworms, berries, baked goods, chopped fruits, soaked raisins, currants, nutmeats, sunflower hearts

Kinglets

Suet, suet mixes, baked goods

Waxwings

Berries, chopped fruits, canned peas, currants, raisins

Warblers

Suet, suet mixes, fruit, baked goods, sugar solution, chopped nutmeats

Tanagers

Suet, fruits, sugar solution, mealworms, baked goods

Cardinals, grosbeaks, pyrrhuloxias
(a type of cardinal)

Sunflower, safflower, cracked corn, millet, fruit

Towhees, juncos

Millet, sunflower, cracked corn, peanuts, baked goods, nutmeats

Sparrows, buntings

Millet, sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower, cracked corn, baked goods

Blackbirds, starlings

Cracked corn, milo, wheat, table scraps, baked goods, suet

Orioles

Halved oranges, apples, berries, sugar solution, grape jelly, suet, suet mixes, soaked raisins, and currants

Finches, siskins

Thistle (niger), sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower seed, millet, canary seed, fruits, peanut kernels, suet mixes


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