About Grace’s Bird Cage
A backyard birding website: research-based guides and free tools to help you identify birds, feed them well and build a yard they return to.
What we do
Grace’s Bird Cage is an independent website about backyard birding: wild birds at feeders, baths, gardens and nest boxes. Despite the name, we don’t cover pet birds or cages. Our goal is to answer the practical questions backyard birders actually have:
- What bird did I see?
- How do I attract it, and what does it eat?
- Which feeder should I use, and where should it go?
- How do I make my yard safer and better for birds?
- Which products are worth buying, including smart camera feeders?
Our free tools
Our tools give quick, personalized starting points. The Bird Seed Selector and Feeder Placement Calculator use fixed, research-based rules. The Bird ID Helper, Feeder Setup Planner and Journal Generator use an AI model (Google Gemini) to write a response from what you enter. AI answers can be wrong, so we present bird IDs as possible matches and recommend confirming them with a field guide or the Cornell Lab’s free Merlin app.
How our content is researched
Our guides are written by the Grace’s Bird Cage editorial team, with AI assistance at times, and are researched from:
- Ornithological and conservation organizations, including the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (All About Birds, NestWatch, Project FeederWatch), National Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Manufacturer specifications and documentation for products
- Independent reviews and recurring patterns in owner feedback
We don’t claim professional ornithology credentials, and we don’t claim to have personally tested products unless a page says so explicitly. Our editorial policy and how we review products explain the details.
A note on earlier versions of this site
Earlier versions of Grace’s Bird Cage published articles under a writer persona, “Clara Finch,” with first-person testing claims, credentials and accuracy statistics we could not document. In September 2026 we removed that persona and rewrote those articles to describe our research honestly. If you spot anything we missed, please tell us.
How we’re funded
We’re supported by affiliate commissions. When you buy through some links, for example to Amazon or Birdfy, we may earn a commission. You pay the same price. Commissions never decide what we recommend, and we recommend non-commercial solutions, such as native plants and habitat changes, whenever they’re the better answer. Details are in our affiliate disclosure.
Photos
Most photos on this site are public-domain images from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Park Service, credited on each image and listed on our image credits page. We don’t present them as our own.
Contact
Questions, corrections or suggestions: use our contact form or email [email protected].