| Here is a very comprehensive chart of what food different species of birds prefer.
For the largest variety of birds to visit you provide multiple feeders to bring wonderful results.
Type of Bird | Food Preference | | Blue Jays | Sunflower seed, safflower, cracked corn, peanuts, suet, bread, peanut butter, lard mixes, seed mixes | | House Finch | Mixed seed, peanuts, fruit, suet, niger, sunflower, safflower, thistle | | Gold Finch | Thistle/nyger, sunflower seed, hulled sunflower, millet, fruit, suet, peanuts | | House Wren | Suet, bread crumbs | | House Sparrow | Mixed seed, sunflower seeds | | Wrens | Suet, suet mix, peanut butter, bread, apples | | Indigo Bunting | Peanuts, millet, variety of seeds | | Northern Flicker | Suet, peanut butter, sunflower seeds, fruit, meat, bread | | Oriole | Oranges, apples, grape jelly, oriole jelly, sugar water, soft raisins | | Painted Bunting | Sunflower seeds, seed mixes | | Pine Grosbeak | Sunflower seeds, grain | | Pine Siskin | Nuts, rolled oats, thistle, mixed seeds, sunflower seeds, sunflower chips, millet, suet | | Purple Finch | Sunflower seeds, thistle | | Red Crossbills | Sunflower seeds, thistle | | Red Poll | Suet, bread, sunflower seeds | | Red Winged Blackbird | Bread, cracked corn, mixed seeds, sunflower seeds, sunflower chips, millet, suet | | Robins, Bluebirds, Thrushes | Apples, sunflower seed, bread, grapes, suet, mealworms, berries, raisins, nut meal, seed mixes | | Rose Breasted Grosbeaks | Sunflower seeds, grapes, orange halves | | American Gold Finch | Sunflower seeds, thistle/niger | | Black Billed Magpie | Meat, bread | | Bobwhite Quail | Sunflower seeds, seed mixes | | Brown Headed Cowbird | Bread, cracked corn, sunflower seeds, seed mixes | | Bushtit | Bread, sunflower seeds, bird seed mixes | | Cardinals | Cracked corn, nuts, sunflower seeds, safflower, millet, peanuts, apple, bread | | Black Capped Chickadees | Sunflower seeds, peanuts, bread, suet | | Crows | Bread, scraps, corn, suet | | Magpies | Scraps, suet, peanuts, bread | | Downy Woodpeckers | Sunflower seeds, corn, cornbread, peanut butter, suet, shelled peanuts, sunflower seeds | | Grosbeaks | Sunflower seeds, safflower, apple, fruit, suet, millet, bread, peanut kernels | | Buntings | Sunflower seeds, safflower, apple, fruit, suet, millet, bread, peanut kernels | | Grackles | Sunflower seeds, bread, scraps | | Titmouse | Sunflower seeds, suet, bread, safflower, peanuts, peanut kernel | | Chickadees | Peanut kernel, sunflower seeds, suet, bread, safflower | | Nuthatches | Suet, suet mix, sunflower seeds, nuts, cracked corn, bread | | Creepers | Suet, suet mix, sunflower seeds, nuts, cracked corn, bread | | Mockingbirds | Halved apples, fruit, bread, suet, sunflower seeds, nuts | | Thrashers | Halved apples, fruit, bread, suet, sunflower seeds, nuts | | Flycatchers, Phoebes | Bees, wasps, ants, mealworms | | Kinglets | Suet, bread | | Waxwings | Berries, raisins, sliced apple, canned peas, currants, grapes | | Warblers | Suet, suet mix, water, fruit, breads, sugar water, nut pieces | | Tanagers | Suet, fruit, sugar water, mealworms, bread | | Song Sparrows | Sunflower seeds, seed mixes, bread, thistle, millet | | Starlings | Bread, scraps, suet | | Stellers Jays | Nuts, scraps, suet | | Tree Sparrows | Wild bird seed mixes, millet | | Sparrows | Millet, peanut kernels, suet, bread, canary seed, sunflower seed | | White Breasted Nuthatches | Peanuts, sunflower seeds, suet, safflower | | Hairy Woodpeckers | Sunflower seeds, nuts, cheese, apples, bananas, suet, peanut butter | | Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers | Nutmeats, suet, fruit | | Quail | Cracked corn, millet, berries | | Pigeons | Cracked corn, sunflower seeds, milo, bread, thistle, nuts | | Doves | Cracked corn, sunflower seeds, milo, bread, thistle, nuts | | Roadrunners | Meat scraps, suet | | Hummingbirds | Plant nectars, small insects, sugar water, instant nectars | | Woodpeckers | Insects, fruit, sunflower seeds, suet, nuts, sugar water | | Western Tanagers, Scarlet Tanagers | Orange halves, grapes | | Juncos | Millet, sunflower seeds, cracked corn, peanuts, bread, nut meats, thistle, suet | | Towhees | Millet, sunflower seeds, peanuts, grapes, cracked corn, suet | | Rufhouse Sided Towhee | Bird seed mixes, thistle, sunflower seeds, millet, cracked corn | | Baltimore Oriole | Suet, orange halves | | Brown Thrashers | Orange halves, cracked corn | | Carolina Wrens | Suet, sunflower chips | | Cat Birds | Raisins, grapes, orange halves, suet | | Mourning Dove | Millet, thistle, sunflower chips, safflower, cracked corn | | Pileated Woodpeckers | Suet | | Red Bellied Woodpeckers | Suet, sunflower seeds, peanuts, orange halves, safflower, cracked corn |
Chart provided by Dads Woodshed LLC
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