Birdlink

Bird

Natural Food

Substitute

Cuckoos

Tent caterpillars, worms, insects, lizards

Meal worms, beef heart rolled in bone meal, Science Diet Puree

Roadrunner

Snakes, sunflower seeds, pecans and lizards

Beef heart, mealworms, mice and chicks.

Jays and Crows

Insects, sunflower seeds, pecans, lizards

Science Diet, mealworms, nuts, seeds, fruit, and crickets.

Mockingbirds, Robins, Catbirds, bluebirds, Thrushes, Cedar Waxwings, Warblers, Thrashers, Starlings, Sparrows Blackbirds, meadow larks, Cowbirds,

Pokeberry, holly, sumac, grapes, cherries, chinaberries, pyracantha, cedar berries, insects, weed seeds.

Raisins, chopped fruit, Science diet, Mealworms, wild bird seeds

Cardinals, finches

Insects, sunflower seeds, weed seeds, fruit

Mealworms, sunflower seeds, wild birdseed, chopped fruit, Science Diet.

Shrikes

Insects, wasps, small birds, rodent and frogs

Beef heart rolled in eggshell, meal worms, grasshoppers, crickets, mice, Science Diet.

Hummingbirds

Nectar from flowers, tiny insects

Commercial hummingbird mix

Kingbirds, Nighthawks, Whippoorwills, Swifts, flycatchers, Swallows

Insects. Eat in flight and must be hand fed.

Beef heart rolled in eggshell, meal worms, crickets, insects, Science Diet.

Kingfishers

Fish, crabs, frogs, lizards, locust

Smelt, beef heart, lean beef

Woodpeckers, Flickers

Grubs, ants, beetles, some fruit and berries

Mealworms, chopped apples, beef heart rolled in egg shell, Science Diet

Chickadees, Titmice, Nuthatchers, Towhees

Pine seeds, sunflower seeds, insects, some fruit

Sunflower seeds, pine nuts, Science Diet, fruit mealworms.

Doves, Pigeons

Seed,

Pureed Science Diet, baby strained chicken add avian vitamins.