Following are some of the most prolific insect-eating birds…

• Many people consider Grackles and Starlings to be nuisance birds, but they consume enormous quantities of insects… ants, grubs, wasps, and spiders. Thanks to a comment from one of our readers, we can add Sparrows to this list of insect (cicadas to be exact)-eating birds. These three are certainly not beautiful birds, but it’s hard to beat them for organic gardening pest control.
• Swallows are another huge insect consumer. Definitely beautiful and acrobatic, swallows are organic gardening bug-eating masters.
• Just by looking at some birds, you would never guess how effective they are as bug eaters. Bluebirds often perch nonchalantly and wait for bugs to come to them, and then snap them up. Flycatchers do the same. Pretty efficient organic gardening pest control.
• Worms and crawling insects are favorites of ground feeders like Thrashers and the American Robin. These familiar insect-eating birds will stalk your lawn and search under bushes for anything that moves.
• Nuthatches and Brown Creepers search for bugs on tree trunks. They’re fun to watch as they scurry up and down, and around and around the trunk. Very few bugs escape them. Who knew an organic gardening pest control could be so funny!
• Even nectar-sipping hummingbirds consume large quantities of spiders. They also weave

Fruit Eating Birds

·         Adding fruit feeders to your backyard can attract many fruit eating birds that might not otherwise come to feeders. Fruit can be offered in hanging feeders, wire feeders designed for holding pieces of fruit or fruit suet, or nectar feeders for fruit eating birds.

·         Some of the birds that like to eat orange halves are:

·         Eastern Birds 
• Red-bellied Woodpeckers
• Northern Mockingbirds 
• Brown Thrashers 
• Orchard Orioles 
• Baltimore Orioles 
• Scarlet Tanagers 
• Gray Catbirds 
• Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

·         Western Birds 
• Hooded orioles 
• Bullock’s orioles 
• Gray Catbirds 
• Western Tanagers

Grapes are particularly attractive to:

·         Eastern Birds 
• Northern Mockingbirds 
• Eastern Bluebirds 
• Cedar Waxwings 
• Gray Catbirds 
• Scarlet Tanagers 
• Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 
• House Finches 
• Robins 
• Towhees

·         Western Birds 
• Acorn Woodpeckers 
• Western Bluebirds 
• Western Tanagers 
• Black-headed Grosbeaks 
• House Finches 
• Towhees 
• Robins 

Raisins are particularly attractive to:

·         Eastern Birds 
• Northern Mockingbirds 
• Gray Catbirds 
• Eastern Bluebirds 
• Cedar Waxwings