The Backyard Birder is a simple, practical home for backyard birding — written for beginners who want more birds in their yard, and clear answers when something is not working.
Maybe you hung your first feeder and the squirrels found it before the birds did. Maybe your bird bath froze solid, or the cardinals you love just stopped visiting. This site exists for exactly those moments: step-by-step guides, honest gear help, and small changes that bring real birds back — in every season.
What You’ll Find Here
Bird Guides
What different birds eat, and how to attract the species you love to your yard.
Feeders & Gear
Feeders, foods and accessories explained honestly — what works, what to skip.
Backyard Habitats
Bird baths, water, shelter and simple planting ideas that make birds stay.
Tips & How To
Everyday birding problems — squirrels, cleaning, shy birds — solved step by step.
How Every Guide Is Made
Good bird advice has to be accurate — a wrong feeding tip can genuinely harm birds. So every guide on this site follows the same process:
1. Researched from trusted sources
Bird facts are checked against the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Audubon and the US Fish & Wildlife Service before anything is published. We never invent statistics or copy other sites.
2. Written in plain language
No jargon, no filler. If a guide cannot be followed by a first-time bird lover, it gets rewritten until it can.
3. Kept up to date
When advice, products or prices change, guides are updated — and if you ever spot an error, our Contact page is the fastest way to tell us. Corrections are always welcome.
Meet the Author
Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam writes every guide published on The Backyard Birder — practical, beginner-friendly help on feeding backyard birds, choosing feeders, bird baths and bird-friendly yards. He is also the writer behind Tiny Aquarium (tinyauqa.com), where his step-by-step fish-care guides help beginners keep healthy nano tanks. Every bird fact in his guides is checked against trusted sources such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon before it is published.
Author CV
Abdus Salam’s full author profile — what he writes, his editorial standards and his published work:
Start Exploring
New here? Begin with our latest guides, or jump straight to the season’s most useful reads on the homepage.