- bird feed
- nounfood given to birds; usually mixed seeds• Hyponyms: ↑canary seed
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bird feed
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bird food — noun food given to birds; usually mixed seeds • Syn: ↑bird feed, ↑birdseed • Hypernyms: ↑feed, ↑provender • Hyponyms: ↑canary seed … Useful english dictionary
feed on — phr verb Feed on is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bird Feed on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑diet, ↑food, ↑remains … Collocations dictionary
Bird feeding — is the activity of feeding wild birds. HistoryJames Fisher noted that the first person to feed wild birds was the sixth century monk St Serf of Fife who tamed a robin by feeding it. It was in the winter of 1890 91 that people were encouraged to… … Wikipedia
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Bird Kingdom — Type Private Industry Aviary Founded 2003 Headquarters … Wikipedia
Bird louse — refers to any chewing louse (paraphyletic suborder Mallophaga) which parasitizes birds. Recent reclassification has found that bird lice belong to two suborders, Amblycera and Ischnocera, although some members of these suborders do not parasitize … Wikipedia
bird table — noun A table, inaccessible to cats, for wild birds to feed on • • • Main Entry: ↑bird * * * bird table UK US noun [countable] [singular bird table plural bird tables … Useful english dictionary
bird louse — n. any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds * * * ▪ insect any of two groups of chewing lice (order Phthiraptera) that live on birds and feed on feathers, skin … Universalium
