Editing Bird feeding (section)

==History==
[[File:Mies ruokkii kyyhkysiä Runebergin Esplanaadilla. - N2024 (hkm.HKMS000005-000001cv).jpg|thumb|A man feeding pigeons at [[Esplanadi]] in [[Helsinki]], Finland, in 1921]]
The British naturalist [[James Fisher (naturalist)|James Fisher]] wrote that the first person recorded as feeding wild birds was the 6th-century monk [[Saint Serf]] of [[Fife]] who tamed a robin by feeding it.

During the harsh winter of 1890–1891 in the United Kingdom national newspapers asked people to put out food for birds, and in 1910 in the United Kingdom, [[Punch (magazine)|''Punch'' magazine]] declared that feeding birds had become a national pastime.<ref name=moss>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTbLAgAAQBAJ&q=serf |title=A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching |author=Moss, Stephen |year=2004 |publisher=Aurum |pages=102–103|isbn=9781781310090 }}</ref>

Today in the United Kingdom, most people feed year-round, and enough food is provided to support the calorie requirements of the 10 most common garden bird species.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Orros|first1=Melanie E.|last2=Fellowes|first2=Mark D. E.|date=2015-06-01|title=Wild Bird Feeding in an Urban Area: Intensity, Economics and Numbers of Individuals Supported|journal=Acta Ornithologica|volume=50|issue=1|pages=43–58|doi=10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.1.006|s2cid=85875878 |issn=0001-6454|doi-access=free}}</ref> Bird feeding has grown into the United States' second most popular hobby behind gardening.<ref name="Feeding Time">Richardson, Scott. "Feeding Time." ''Pantagraph'' [Bloomington, IL] 31 January 2010. Print.</ref> In celebration of the bird feeding hobby, February was named [[National Bird-Feeding Month]] by congressional decree in 1994.<ref>U.S. House. Representative John Porter of Illinois speaking on National Wild Bird Feeding Month. 103rd Cong. ''Congressional Record'' (23 February 1994). Volume 140.</ref>