Hulled sunflower for the most species and least mess!

I've had the most success with species variety and least mess/wasted seed when offering hulled sunflower seed, also known as sunflower hearts or chips.

Offer this seed in a tube-style seed feeder for finches, grosbeaks, woodpeckers, nuthatches, and others. Ground-feeding birds such as sparrows, juncos, towhees, doves, quail, etc, will clean up any remaining seed that the finches drop on the ground.

Hulled sunflower seeds