Here’s what you should know about how to keep your backyard birds healthy, including whether you should keep feeding them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Costa's Hummingbirds are frequent visitors at feeders in Arizona and southern California. Julian Avery, CC BY-ND Millions of ...

Feeding wild birds is a popular hobby globally, but it presents invisible disease risks to the very birds that we are feeding — but there are ways to safeguard their health. Adult male European ...

Are you one of the 59 million people who feed birds in the United States? If yes, you are involved in the second-most popular hobby after gardening. Feeding wild birds has been an American tradition ...

It’s time to feed the birds again. Over the years I have written 19 different columns on bird feeding, and I recently re-read them all. My advice hasn’t changed much and here I distill it into three ...

Let's be honest: there's no such thing as completely squirrel-proof bird feeders. But you can cut down on squirrels' visits ...

Great tit birds eating on a bird feeder - Jeremy Edwards/Getty Images Birds are important to my garden practice as a permaculture specialist. They are brilliant pest controllers, and they're ...

The cheery call of the black-capped chickadee adds light to the darkest days of the year in late December and early January. That’s one reason why I enjoy feeding birds in winter. It’s comforting to ...

DEAR JOAN: Many of our friends and neighbors have bird feeders or scatter seeds for them. My question is why is it considered a good thing to feed the wild birds, put up birdhouses and owl boxes when ...

This Pennsylvania rescue offers the rare chance to hand feed parrots, macaws, and toucans while learning about exotic birds.

An American professor is studying the positive effects on humans of bird feeding after observing a family member’s strong attachment to the hobby. Ashley Dayer is an associate professor in the Fish ...