Dayer, who said her own mother is very committed to bird feeding, is the lead author of an article recently published in People and Nature. Its aim: to find the positive human effects of bird feeding.

This small act can mean the world to a mother bird, allowing her to continue feeding and caring for her baby in a safe ...

With fall giving way to winter, natural food sources become scarcer for birds, especially after a particularly dry growing ...

For the care and feeding of its offspring ... a retired photo editor who’s an avid wildlife photographer, observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she lives.