Our Winter Bird Highlights, summarizing the results from the 2022-23 season, is now online.
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Find out about types of feeders and types of foods, and where to place your feeder
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Explore the winter distribution, food, and feeder preferences of common feeder birds.
Find out about color and plumage variations, bald heads, and deformed bills
Unusual Birds Gallery
Find out about bird disease and identifying the signs of bird disease
Sick Birds Gallery
Find out how to identify birds and download identification tools
Learn how to help birds as they seek out food sources, nesting habitat, protection, and more
Find educational resources for teachers, group leaders, and families
Find an article archive packed with lots of great bird study information
Learn about house finch eye disease
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology feeders
Ontario (winter only)
See what birds occur the most by region
Explore species by state/province
See where FeederWatchers are
Graphs of regional population trends and distributions
Explore papers that have used FeederWatch data
Lab scientists analyze the data submitted by FeederWatch participants.
See birds well outside their winter range submitted to Project FeederWatch.
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Dee and Brian Hicks
Youngsville, NC, United States
We live in a rural area outside Youngsville. Today was a busy day as the winter storm arrived. I filled the feeders and my husband snapped the pictures.These were all of the red maple directly behind the house. It had two feeders and two of those Pennington’s disposable bird seed bells, but one of the feeders was broken while trying to rehang it after filling it. The ground feeding birds were happy about that but the cardinals and I were not.I found cold plastic landing on even snowy ground tends to shatter beyond repair. The red feeder survived and was filled with black oil sunflower seeds. After dark I will go hang more of the bells. They seem to be the most popular ‘feeders’ and fortunately were just on sale!
The juncos and sparrows compete for the prized Penningtons bells (or what was left of one).
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