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Backyard Feeding Basics

Offer food and water while reducing disease, window-strike, and predator risks.

Backyard Feeding Basics
Photograph from the Long Island Birds collection.

Choose appropriate food, keep it dry, discard spoiled seed, and clean feeders and birdbaths on a regular schedule. Place feeders either very close to windows or far enough away to reduce dangerous flight speed, and add visible window markers where strikes occur.