Supplementary feeding has become a widespread management tool for declining farmland birds. In the countryside in late winter there is often not enough natural seed food, which causes a hungry gap between February and April when lots of birds die of starvation.
Research tells us that providing food in this period leads to better winter survival and breeding success. This short video goes through the basics of best-practice farmland bird feeding.
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