BirdFeederWise.com is an independent editorial site about feeders, baths and bird gear for backyard bird feeding. To keep our guides free to read, we work with affiliate programs.
What are affiliate links?
If you buy something through some of the links on our site, we may receive a small commission from the retailer. You never pay more because of this, and the price is the same as it would be without the link.
Amazon Associates
BirdFeederWise.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Our Amazon links carry the associate tag birdfeederwise-20. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. We may also participate in similar affiliate or referral programs offered by other retailers and manufacturers.
Our recommendations are editorial
Commissions never decide what we recommend. No manufacturer pays for a placement, and no product is included because it earns more. A product appears in a guide only after we have explained what it is for and who it suits, and it is left out when it does not hold up. Where the honest answer is that nothing needs to be bought, or that moving the pole, changing the seed or waiting out a season is the real fix, that is what we write.
Several camera feeder brands sell mainly through their own store rather than through a retailer we can link to, and some carry a subscription for the features people assume are included. We say so on the page instead of pointing a buy button at the nearest listing, and a brand that has no genuine retail presence gets a review without one.
Some subjects carry no product links at all. Articles about nectar and feeding by species, about disease at feeders and about nest boxes point to Cornell Lab and All About Birds, to Audubon and NestWatch, to a university extension service and to your state wildlife agency instead, because a purchase is not the answer to those questions.
We select on fit, on published manufacturer specifications and on reported backyard experience, because we do not physically test products and do not claim to. We keep prices out of the written guides, since the current price is always on the retailer page.
A reminder about advice
Buying a product is not the same as getting advice. We are not ornithologists, wildlife biologists or veterinarians, and nothing we recommend is a substitute for the guidance of Cornell Lab or Audubon, for the manual that came with your feeder, or for the rules in force where you live.