Wild birds maintain a primarily natural diet, making supplemental feeding unnecessary year-round. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service identifies multiple specific risks that make bird feeders dangerous ...

After dozens of dead waterfowl were discovered near Patchogue this week and an Aquebogue duck farm was forced to euthanize about 99,000 ducks last month, Long Island experts and community members ...

If you want to draw a crowd of feathered friends to your backyard bird feeders, follow the same rule you would when choosing any other piece of real estate: Location, location, location. The best spot ...

Consider these popular seed types and the common backyard birds they attract: ...

More than 50 million Americans feed birds, putting out an estimated billion pounds of bird food each year, based on U. S.

Chad Witko, an outreach biologist in Vernon, Vt., has been a birder since he was 3. His father was a waterfowl hunter and would bring birds home for him to examine. His mother helped him put homemade ...

FILE - A tufted titmouse grabs a seed from a snow covered bird feeder during a snowstorm in December 2020 in North Andover, Mass. Mark Herz: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. If it’s feeling spring-y to ...

Bluebirds are beautiful, colorful, and finicky. But there's a couple of ways to make your garden or yard more attractive to ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - We all know that neighbor who takes bird feeding to Olympic games-level extremes. With tree limbs sagging under the weight of countless feeders and a back lawn that looks ...

Two recent bear encounters with humans had one thing in common — and in one of those instances, a common bruin magnet that homeowners should discard. If you said pets and a bird feeder, you’d be ...