At Chewy, we understand the importance of feeding our feathered friends! With an assortment of wild bird food available, Chewy provides everything your feathered friends require for optimal health and well-being.
Premium bird seed mixes are the best way to attract an assortment of wild birds to your feeder. This mix typically consists of black oil sunflower, peanuts, millet and other seeds which appeal to most types of wild birds.
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Sunflower Seed
Sunflower seed is an excellent way to provide birds with essential nutrition, providing protein, fiber and vitamin E.
Sunflower seeds make an excellent healthy treat that’s easily found in nature, providing your birds with high-energy food sources during times when insects may be scarcer. Sunflower seeds also serve as an energy-rich food that may help your birds survive winter when insects may not be as plentiful.
If you want to create an easy feeding station for backyard birds, try switching out whole seeds with hulled sunflower seeds instead. Hullened sunflower seeds are easier for birds to break apart without leaving behind an array of shells underneath your feeders.
Cracked Corn
Cracked corn is an inexpensive way to attract ground-feeding birds such as cardinals, white-throated sparrows and doves in your backyard.
Cracked corn is a popular food among deer, squirrels and raccoons – an excellent seed to use as wildlife feeders to divert these animals away from bird feeders.
Cracked corn is a popular supplemental food choice for backyard birds, but should only ever serve as an occasional treat or limited daily amount.
Milo
Milo (also referred to as grain sorghum or milo) is one of the most frequently used fillers for birdseed mixes, due to its affordability and ability to fill up an entire bag quickly and effectively.
Western birds like Steller’s Jays and Curve-billed Thrashers tend to appreciate this plant more than passerines; however, its popularity remains limited among passerines.
As is often the case with fillers such as milo, it may attract unwanted cowbirds, starlings and grackles which may become an irritation at your feeders. Furthermore, like corn it has a high glycemic index and could cause your blood sugar levels to spike significantly.
Peanuts
Peanuts are an extremely popular wild bird food choice that are enjoyed by various bird species. Packed full of protein and fat, peanuts provide energy needed for flying, preening, nesting, hatchling feedings and other activities.
Peanuts provide backyard birds with essential vitamins and minerals such as phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, calcium, copper iron potassium manganese manganese niacin.
Peanuts offer your backyard birds a healthy and budget-friendly food source that they’ll appreciate, particularly during autumn and winter when more calories may be necessary to stay warm.
Suet Cakes
Suet cakes are an easy and calorie-dense wild bird food option that keeps birds active and healthy, while also drawing woodpeckers and nuthatches into your backyard.
Suet cakes will also help your birds survive the winter season, providing essential fuel that keeps their wings warm. Suet cakes contain beef tallow which provides high amounts of energy that wild birds need to stay warm.
Suet Cake’s no-melt formula keeps it fresh, feeding birds all season. A great alternative to traditional seed feeders!
Nyjer Seed
Nyjer Seed, also referred to as Niger Seed or Thistle Weed is one of the most beloved wild bird foods available and enjoyed by goldfinches, purple finches, pine siskins and redpolls alike.
Seeds containing high oil content provide energy-rich food sources for active birds such as finches and house finches, providing energy that they need for active lives. But freshness of food must always be ensured for picky eaters like finches as it quickly stales in its thin shell.
An appropriate feeder with mesh fine enough to catch and retain tiny seeds while remaining large enough for perching birds to grab and consume is required in order to attract various types of birds, including small beaked finches, redpolls and indigo buntings. This feeder will attract an assortment of species.
