Articles Index

What to Feed Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds eat more than just flower nectar, and if you know what to feed hummingbirds, you can provide these birds a healthy, balanced diet in your backyard. Includes what not to feed hummingbirds.

How to Find Hummingbirds

Tips for how to find hummingbirds, including where and when to look for these birds. Includes tips for attracting hummingbirds to your backyard.

Hummingbird Habitats

Hummingbirds are adaptable and live in a wide range of areas. Understanding hummingbird habitats can help you find these birds in the wild more easily, and you can even design a hummingbird habitat in your backyard.

Suet Cage Nester

Make an easy, inexpensive suet cage nester to offer birds colorful yarn scraps as nesting material.

How Fishing Line Hurts Birds

Discussion of the many ways monofilament fishing line threatens birds, from injuries to starvation to drowning, including tips for how you can help protect birds from this hazard.

Preening

Preening is an essential part of a bird's daily routine, and there are many reasons why birds carefully groom their feathers.

Attract Birds With Nesting Material

Learn how to attract birds by offering suitable nesting material in a way that will encourage them to build nests in your backyard. Includes a list of different types of nesting material.

How Litter Hurts Birds

Even a small piece of litter can affect birds in big ways. Learn more about how litter affects birds and what you can do to help.

Safflower Seeds

Learn more about safflower seeds, including which birds prefer these seeds and how to offer them at your bird feeders. Include tips for growing your own safflower seeds.

Birds That Eat Suet

If you offer suet at your bird feeders, what birds will eat it? Includes a list of birds that eat suet in North America and Europe, plus tips for feeding birds suet.

Attract a Specific Bird

Attracting a specific bird species to your yard can be a challenge, but these tips can help you make your backyard more attractive to the exact birds you want to see.

Birds That Use Bird Houses

A list of bird species that use bird houses or nest boxes in North American and Europe, including tips for how to attract birds to bird houses.

How to Attract Swallows

Get natural insect control with these tips for attracting swallows. If you meet these birds' needs for food, water, shelter and nesting sites, you'll be rewarded with swallows in the backyard.

American Bird Conservancy

Overview of the American Bird Conservancy, including projects the ABC is involved in an benefits of joining the organization.

Birds That Eat Fruit

List of most common bird species that eat fruit, including what fruits are most popular to feed birds and tips for how to feed birds fruit.

Easy Orange Bird Feeder

Turn an orange rind into an easy bird feeder in minutes. Great for offering birds seed, mealworms, nuts, jelly or other foods.

Where to Buy Birdseed

Buying birdseed isn't as easy as picking up any old bag of seed, and these tips can help you decide if it is better to buy your seed locally or online. Includes a list of online birdseed retailers and tips for finding the best deal.

Easter Chicks and Ducklings

Easter chicks and ducklings are popular gifts, but not always responsible ones. Learn about what it takes to own these pets and the dangers they may pose to uninformed gift recipients.

Names of Baby Birds

Do you know what a squab, pullet, colt and jake all have in common? They're all unique names for baby birds! Learn what to call baby birds and what generic baby bird names can be used for any bird species.

American Crow or Common Raven?

Tips to identify American crows and common ravens, including how to tell the difference between these two nearly identical corvids. Includes a quick reference table of identification characteristics for American crows and common ravens.

How Birds Mate

Discussion of bird mating, including courtship behavior, the sexual anatomy of birds and how the act of copulation takes place. Includes tips to protect birds when you see them mating.

When Is Spring Migration?

Tips for learning when your peak spring migration period is so you can take advantage of the best seasonal birding. Includes a discussion of factors that affect when spring migration is, from geography to food supplies to weather patterns.

BirdLife Australia

Overview of BirdLife Australia, including a history of the bird conservation organization, the type of work they do for bird preservation today and the benefits of becoming a member.

Adding Nesting Material to Bird Houses

Will adding nesting material to bird houses help attract birds? For some birds it can be useful, but other birds won't like it. Learn when you should add nesting material to bird houses and how else you can make your bird houses more attractive to nesting birds. Also discusses appropriate types of nesting material.

Bird Feeder Placement

Tips for proper bird feeder placement so it is best for the birds and convenient for birders.