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Birds and food

The most effective way to attract a large variety of birds to your yard is to put out separate feeders for each food, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says. Following is a guide matching birds with their favorite foods:

Cracked corn: ducks, geese, quail, mourning doves

Nyjer: finches, pine siskins, chickadees, dark-eyed juncos, redpolls, doves and sparrows

Nectar: hummingbirds, cardinals, thrushes, orioles, tanagers, finches

Fruit: orioles, mockingbirds, cedar waxwings, tanagers, bluebirds, jays, cardinals, thrushes

Peanuts: woodpeckers, chickadees and titmice

Millet: doves, blackbirds, sparrows, juncos, towhees

Source: Associated Press