Contact
Corrections, questions and observations from your own yard are all welcome.
The short answer
- Email hello@birdfeederweb.com for corrections, questions or observations.
- Corrections are the priority: include the page address and the specific sentence.
- We cannot identify birds from descriptions or give advice about sick or injured birds. Those need a local expert.
- We do not accept guest posts, link requests, sponsored content or products for review.
Email#
hello@birdfeederweb.com
That address reaches us for everything below. There is no contact form, no newsletter signup and no account to create.
What is useful to send#
Corrections. The most valuable message we get. Include the page address, quote the sentence you think is wrong, and add a source if you have one. See the corrections policy for how these are handled.
Observations from your own feeders. If the birds in your yard consistently do something our preference chart says they should not, we want to know. Tell us the species, the food, the region and roughly how long you have been watching it. Several ratings in our dataset carry the marks of exactly this kind of report.
Topic requests. If you searched for something and could not find a good answer anywhere, including here, that is useful information about a gap.
Data reuse questions. The dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution license and you do not need permission, but if you are building something with it we would like to hear about it.
What we cannot help with#
Sick, injured or orphaned birds. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in your area. Your state or provincial wildlife agency maintains a list, and they can act in hours where we cannot act at all. General background on what to look for is in diseases at feeders and window strikes, but that is background, not advice for a bird in front of you now.
Bird identification from a description. We do not have the capacity to do this, and there are better tools: the Merlin app from the Cornell Lab, or a local birding group, will do it faster and more reliably.
Wildlife law questions. Rules on feeding, trapping and nest management differ by state, province and municipality. Ask your wildlife agency, not us.
Nuisance animal removal. Contact a licensed operator or your local authority.
What we decline#
We do not accept guest posts, sponsored articles, paid links, link exchanges, press releases or products for review. Requests of that kind are not answered. The reasoning is in the editorial standards.