The bird is eating seeds like that guy from System of a Down in that one song. Birds, like most animals, spend significant amounts of time looking for food. While wild birds don’t depend on your seed, ...

Discover the best winter foods, feeder placement ideas, and maintenance tips to keep your backyard birds healthy.

Create a cardinal haven outside your home with this essential guide. Treasured by bird enthusiasts for their song, beauty, and mating habits, creating a suitable environment will bring cardinals to ...

Feb 10, 2018 Feb 10, 2018 Updated Dec 28, 2022 One common backyard bird that may be taken for granted also has romantic attributes worthy of Valentine’s Day. In the brown bleakness of mid-winter, the ...

Which bird feeder is best? The right bird feeder can transform a simple outdoor space into a lively meeting spot for winged neighbors. Feeders welcome all kinds of birds depending on the shape, ...

This is about a celebrity sighting. Of sorts. On my way out the door last week, I glanced out the window over the kitchen sink and saw something odd. Sitting on the seed tray of the backyard ...

In late January, something odd appeared on Charlie Stephenson’s bird feeder in Alabaster, Alabama. It looked just like a cardinal—the bright crimson bird common across the eastern United States—except ...

Pine siskins have come south into the metro area, driven by scarcity of food in their usual northern range. Friends at varying distances east, west and north of us have siskins at their feeders. But ...