Beakfeeder earns commission from Amazon when you buy through some of our links. It costs you nothing extra, it does not influence what we recommend, and several categories of article carry no links at all.
The required disclosure
Beakfeeder is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
That wording is set by Amazon. It appears in the footer of every page on this site as well as here, and a shorter version appears near the top of every article that contains an affiliate link — above the first link, so you know before you click rather than after.
What this actually means
If you follow one of our Amazon links and buy something, Amazon pays us a small percentage of the sale. The percentage varies by product category and is generally a few percent.
You pay exactly the same price you would have paid going to Amazon directly. There is no markup, no code to enter, and nothing about your purchase changes.
The commission applies to qualifying purchases made within a limited window after you click, and it is not restricted to the specific product we linked to. If you click a link to a bird feeder and end up buying a garden hose in the same session, we may earn commission on the hose. That is how the program works across every site that uses it.
How to spot an affiliate link
You do not have to guess. Three signals, all present on every one:
Every affiliate link on this site
- Says where it goes. The link text names Amazon — for example, “Check the current price on Amazon”. You will never find a bare “Buy now” here.
- Is marked in the page code with
rel="nofollow sponsored", which is the standard machine-readable signal that a link is commercial. - Carries our tracking tag in the URL. Hover over any link on this site and your browser will show you the destination before you click. Ours end with
tag=bkfd-2121-20.
Links to Cornell Lab, Audubon, US Fish & Wildlife Service, state agencies and manufacturer specification pages are ordinary links. We earn nothing from those.
Pages that carry no affiliate links at all
As a standing policy, these articles contain no commercial links of any kind:
- Sick or dying birds at a feeder
- A nestling or fledgling found on the ground
- Birds nesting inside your house, chimney or vents
If you have landed on one of those pages, something is wrong in front of you right now and you need an answer. Selling you something in the middle of it would be the wrong response, and we would rather lose the revenue than write that page.
What the commission does not buy
Nothing is recommended because it pays better. Commission rates are set by Amazon by product category, not by manufacturer, so there is no version of this where one brand outbids another for a mention.
We also do not accept:
- Payment for reviews or product mentions
- Sponsored posts
- Guest posts
- Link exchanges or paid link placements
- Free products in return for coverage
No manufacturer has been given any influence over what appears on this site, and none has been offered any.
What we do not claim
We have not personally tested every product mentioned, and we do not pretend otherwise. Recommendations are built on manufacturer specifications, independent testing published by others, expert guidance on what makes a feeder work, and what a design demonstrably does. Articles state which of those a given recommendation rests on.
Every product recommendation on this site also names a genuine drawback. That is not modesty — it is the honest position, and a page where everything is excellent should make you suspicious wherever you find it.
More detail on all of this is on the editorial standards page.
Cookies and your data
When you click an Amazon link, Amazon sets a cookie on Amazon’s own domain in order to attribute the sale. That happens on Amazon’s side after you have left this site, and it is governed by Amazon’s own privacy notice rather than ours. We do not receive your name, your address, your payment details or a list of what you bought — only aggregate reporting on how many qualifying sales came from our links.
What Beakfeeder itself does and does not collect is set out on our privacy policy page.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think a link is not properly disclosed, please get in touch. We would rather fix it.