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Do birds eat at night? (1 Viewer)

rseymour

rseymour

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This may be a naive question, but do birds eat at night? (excluding hawks, owls etc)? I've noticed birds at my feeders late into the evening and early dawn. |=\|
 
They like to feed and dusk and dawn, presumably the fading light helps to avoid both diurnal and nocturnal predators. I believe very few birds forage during the night.
 
Robert Ellis said:
They like to feed and dusk and dawn, presumably the fading light helps to avoid both diurnal and nocturnal predators. I believe very few birds forage during the night.
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Thanks. That's what I thought, but wasn't sure. |:p|
 
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