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I've seen this before with crows, squirrels, cigarette butts for example. But my thought is always; how do I prevent one hundred pigeons from descending on this

I've seen this before with crows, squirrels, cigarette butts for example. But my thought is always; how do I prevent one hundred pigeons from descending on this feeder? Because that's all I see in the city where I live, pigeons, pigeons, and more pigeons. Sure there are corvids too, seagulls of course near the sea, but if any food is outside pigeons will flock to this spot. I guess magpies are one of the few birds that can figure out how to get the actual food so the others won't bother. But I assume there's a training stage where you actually have to teach the magpies about the food by leaving some out for them.

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> But I assume there's a training stage where you actually have to teach the magpies about the food by leaving some out for them. Corvids can be trained by "showing" them how it works and they can teach other birds how to use it. So you may not need to "leave out" food for just any bird but wait for crow or other corvid, show them how to use it, and then let them spread the word.