Excerpts from Articles About Caring for Wild Birds

Care of Wild Baby Birds - Part 1

Good for you! It's obvious that you are a caring individual... you're looking for information to care for a helpless creature.

Care of Wild Baby Birds - Part 2

It can also place your foundling at a great disadvantage in the wild. It may become irreversibly bonded to humans, and never adapt to finding food naturally, or associate with other birds.

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Feeding Wild Birds

As you no doubt have discovered, an internet search for "what to feed wild birds" or "bird food recipes for wild birds" offers a mind-boggling array of information. What it all boils down to is, basically... which birds do you want to attract?  (more...)

Feeding Wild Birds from Your Pantry

From your pantry to bird feeders... it doesn't get more homemade than that. With the right ingredients and a little know-how, you can provide birds much needed nutrition and variety. And let's face it, that old saying "variety is the spice of life" holds true even for birds. (more...)

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Wild Bird Food Recipes

Just find a good spot to watch these little guys devour their new, delicious treats. And don't be surprised if you start seeing many more varieties than you normally do.

The "word" will spread about the new 5-star restaurant with all the good eats... right in your own backyard.   (more...)

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Special Instructions for Feeding Wild Baby Birds

Which Pantry Foods Attract Which Birds?

Rendering Beef Fat into Suet for Wild Birds

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(Photo by Kelly Snow courtesy City of Toronto)

How Birds Are Being Protected From Flying Into Buildings

The results are making their way through the birding world... As low as 100,000 million and as high as 1 billion wild birds are killed each year from crashing into windows, including mirrored skyscrapers.   (more...)

Ghostly impression left by a wild bird crashing into a window

How to Keep Birds From Flying into Windows

Not again! That sickening thud. You run to the window hoping to see it flying away. Oh, thank goodness, there it goes. A little worse for wear and a bit erratic... but it's alive!

What's a person to do, other than boarding up the windows?   (more...)

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A Northern Cardinal does battle with an "intruder"... his reflected self. Robins and other territorial "terminators" show their valor with this annoying behavior

How to Deal with Birds Attacking Your Windows

Are you the target of an unrelenting, bright red, feathered monster with a pointy red head? Maybe your monster just has a red belly. Are nearly all the windows in your house under attack...  relentlessly and noisily? Even your car... especially the side mirrors?

Why Birds Fly into Windows

The logical, but flawed, reasoning is to locate feeders just far enough from the house so as not to scare the birds, yet still close enough to see them.

The danger with this placement is when a bird senses danger, or sees what it thinks is an intruder in its territory, it takes flight quickly.

By the time it reaches the window, it has reached a dangerous speed... enough to stun or even kill it.   (more...)

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