Quick Reference Bird-Feeding Chart
This chart provides the general food preferences for the most common feeder birds of North America. Although there are no guaranteed methods for attracting certain birds to your feeders, the presence of water, adequate habitat or cover, and the birds’ preferred foods will enhance the attractiveness of your yard. Foods are listed in approximate order of preference. The Bird House offers a variety of seed blends designed to help attract a variety of birds: our custom seed blends.
| Species | Preferred Foods |
| Cardinals, grosbeaks | Sunflower, safflower, cracked corn, millet, fruit |
| Bluebirds | Suet, suet mixes, mealworms, berries, nutmeats, sunflower hearts |
| Titmice | Peanut kernels, sunflower, safflower, suet, peanut butter |
| Woodpeckers | Suet, sunflower hearts/seed, cracked corn, peanuts, fruits |
| Jays | Peanuts, sunflower, suet, meat scraps, cracked corn |
| Nuthatches | Suet, suet mixes, sunflower hearts and seed, safflower, peanut kernels, peanut butter |
| Warblers | Suet, suet mixes, fruit, chopped nutmeats |
| Chickadees | Peanut kernels, sunflower, suet, peanut butter |
| Tanagers | Suet, fruits, mealworms |
| Hummingbirds | Nectar, small insects |
| Waxwings | Berries, chopped fruits |
| Finches | Thistle (nyjer seed), sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower seed, millet, fruits, peanut kernels, suet mixes |
| Sparrows, buntings | Millet, sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower, cracked corn |
| Orioles | Nectar, halved oranges, apples, berries, suet, suet mixes |
| Wrens | Suet, suet mixes, peanut butter, peanut kernels, mealworms, fruit, millet |
| Robins | Suet, suet mixes, mealworms, chopped fruits, sunflower hearts, nutmeats, berries |
| Pigeons, doves | Millet, cracked corn, wheat, milo, nyjer, sunflower |
| Redwing blackbirds | Cracked corn, milo, wheat, suet |
| Towhees, juncos | Millet, sunflower, cracked corn, safflower, peanuts, nutmeats |
| Pheasants | Cracked corn, millet, wheat, milo |
