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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

10,000 Birds

Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. By September 2014, there were an estimated 164 Millerbirds on Laysan. This paper, which was cited in the paper we just discussed, conducted the relevant experiments: Addison, Jason A., and Antony W.