Food Preferences of Common Feeder Birds
| Sunflower | Safflower | Corn | Millet | Milo | Nyjer | Suet | |
| Chickadees, Titmice, Nuthatches | X | X | X | ||||
| Finches | X | X | X | X | |||
| Cardinals, Grosbeaks | X | X | |||||
| Sparrows, Blackbirds | X | X | X | ||||
| Jays | X | X | X | X | |||
| Woodpeckers | X | X | |||||
| Orioles, Tanagers | X | ||||||
| Pigeons, Doves | X | X | X | ||||
| Indigo Buntings | X | X | X | ||||
Results based in part on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Seed Preference Test, a National Science Experiment sponsored by the National Science Foundation, launched in winter 1993-1994. |
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To learn more about the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's 1993-1994 Seed Preference Test, read the following Birdscope articles:
Birds Like Millet and Milo, Too! by Kenneth V. Rosenberg and Rick Bonney (1994). The National Science Experiments: Seed Preference Test yields exciting results.
Seed Preferences: East Versus West. By Kenneth V. Rosenberg and Andre A. Dhondt (1995). Why do birds in different places like different foods?