The experts at Bird Watcher’s Digest have compiled this informative bird food and seed list to help you attract the birds that you want to your feeders.
Quail, pheasants:
Cracked corn, millet, wheat, milo, sunflower hearts
Pigeons, doves:
Millet, cracked corn, wheat, milo, Nyjer, buckwheat, sunflower hearts
Roadrunner:
Meat scraps, hamburger, suet
Hummingbirds:
Plant nectar, small insects, sugar solution
Woodpeckers:
Suet, meat scraps, sunflower seeds and hearts, cracked corn, peanuts, fruit, sugar solution, millet, mealworms
Jays:
Peanuts, sunflower seeds and hearts, suet, meat scraps, cracked corn, safflower, mealworms, citrus, grapes/raisins
Crows, magpies, and nutcrackers:
Meat scraps, suet, cracked corn, peanuts, leftovers, dog food, safflower, mealworms, sunflower seeds and hearts, citrus, grapes/raisins
Titmice, chickadees:
Peanut kernels, sunflower seeds and hearts, suet, peanut butter, mealworms,
Nuthatches:
Suet, sunflower hearts and seed, peanut kernels, peanut butter, mealworms,
Wrens, creepers:
Suet, peanut butter, peanut kernels, fruit, millet, mealworms, sunflower hearts and seeds
Mockingbirds, thrashers, catbirds:
Halved apple, chopped fruits, suet, nutmeats, millet, soaked raisins, currants, sunflower hearts
Robins, bluebirds, other thrushes:
Suet, mealworms, berries, chopped fruits, soaked raisins, currants, nutmeats, sunflower hearts, citrus
Kinglets:
Suet, suet mixes
Waxwings:
Berries, chopped fruits, canned peas, currants, raisins
Warblers:
Suet, fruit, sugar solution, chopped nutmeats, mealworms, sugar solution
Tanagers:
Suet, fruits, sugar solution, mealworms, grapes, raisins, citrus
Cardinals, grosbeaks, pyrrhuloxias:
Sunflower seeds and hearts, safflower, cracked corn, millet, fruit
Towhees, juncos:
Millet, sunflower, cracked corn, peanuts, nutmeats
Sparrows, buntings:
Millet, milo, sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower seeds, cracked corn, peanuts
Blackbirds, starlings:
Cracked corn, milo, millet, wheat, table scraps, baked goods, suet, safflower, peanuts
Orioles:
Halved oranges, apples, berries, sugar solution, suet, suet mixes, currants, mealworms
Finches, siskins:
Nyjer, sunflower hearts, fruit, peanut kernels, suet
