Gender Gap At The Bird Feeder?

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 During the 2009-2010 season, 520 FeederWatch participants submitted additional information about which sexes of each species were being seen at their feeders, contributing to the “gender gap” survey.

Research News: ‘Gender Gap’ at our feeders

Snow Bunting At The Bird Feeder

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Nice post about the snow bunting:

Naturalist and commentator Ted Levin says that this time of year, migration sometimes brings surprises at the bird feeder. 

Levin: The Snow Bunting

You Can Help With The Nest Watch Project

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NestWatch is a continentwide citizen-science project and nest-monitoring database of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, funded by the National Science Foundation and developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. 

Nest Watch

Brownie Wildlife Explorer Makes A Bird Feeder

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Cute video of a Brownie making a bird feeder.

This is how to make a bird feeder suitable for a Brownie Wildlife explorer badge.

Brownie wildlife explorer bird feeder

Nest Boxes Are Great Additions For Your Bird Feeder Habitat

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More and more people are putting up bird nesting boxes and bird feeders around their own places and also in wild places. Some bluebird nest box routes have boxes numbering in the hundreds. Many more people are giving attention to building boxes to suit the needs of particular bird species and placing them in the corresponding habitat. Seventy species of birds are known to nest in or on manmade nest structures.

Out There: 'Bringing' wildlife home

Carolina Wrens Build Nest In Bird Feeder

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Nice post with pictures of Carolina wrens and the areas they nest in.

Carolina Wrens are monogamous.  The male often brings food to the female while she incubates their eggs.  Both feed the young after the eggs hatch.  One hardcopy field guild we have said males will sometimes finish raising a brood while the female begins incubating another clutch of eggs on another nest.

Carolina Wren - Nesting

 

Should You Put Fresh Fruit At Your Bird Feeder?

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Something has always puzzled me in my years working in the bird feeding industry: why don’t we offer more fresh fruit to birds in our yards?

Fruit For Birds