Backyard Bird Food Chart
The experts at Bird Watcher's Digest have compiled this informative food and seed chart to help you attract the birds that you want to your feeders.
Quail, pheasants |
Cracked corn, millet, wheat, milo |
Pigeons, doves |
Millet, cracked corn, wheat, milo, niger, buckwheat, sunflower, baked goods |
Roadrunner |
Meat scraps, hamburger, suet |
Hummingbirds |
Plant nectar, small insects, sugar solution |
Woodpeckers |
Suet, meat scraps, sunflower hearts/seed, cracked corn, peanuts, fruits, sugar solution |
Jays |
Peanuts, sunflower, suet, meat scraps, cracked corn, baked goods |
Crows, magpies, and nutcracker |
Meat scraps, suet, cracked corn, peanuts, baked goods, leftovers, dog food |
Titmice, chickadees |
Peanut kernels, sunflower, suet, peanut butter |
Nuthatches |
Suet, suet mixes, sunflower hearts and seed, peanut kernels, peanut butter |
Wrens, creepers |
Suet, suet mixes, peanut butter, peanut kernels, bread, fruit, millet (wrens) |
Mockingbirds, thrashers, catbirds |
Halved apple, chopped fruits, baked goods, suet, nutmeats, millet (thrashers), soaked raisins, currants, sunflower hearts |
Robins, bluebirds, other thrushes |
Suet, suet mixes, mealworms, berries, baked goods, chopped fruits, soaked raisins, currants, nutmeats, sunflower hearts |
Kinglets |
Suet, suet mixes, baked goods |
Waxwings |
Berries, chopped fruits, canned peas, currants, raisins |
Warblers |
Suet, suet mixes, fruit, baked goods, sugar solution, chopped nutmeats |
Tanagers |
Suet, fruits, sugar solution, mealworms, baked goods |
Cardinals, grosbeaks, pyrrhuloxias |
Sunflower, safflower, cracked corn, millet, fruit |
Towhees, juncos |
Millet, sunflower, cracked corn, peanuts, baked goods, nutmeats |
Sparrows, buntings |
Millet, sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower, cracked corn, baked goods |
Blackbirds, starlings |
Cracked corn, milo, wheat, table scraps, baked goods, suet |
Orioles |
Halved oranges, apples, berries, sugar solution, grape jelly, suet, suet mixes, soaked raisins, and currants |
Finches, siskins |
Thistle (niger), sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower seed, millet, canary seed, fruits, peanut kernels, suet mixes |






