Rural birds tend to eat more waste seed from animal dung and seed from fields, while urban birds tend to eat more commercial birdseed, weed seed, and human trash. Instead, use clinging mesh feeders, socks, or tube feeders with perches shorter than 5/8 of an inch to prevent house sparrows from perching easily. How To Attract Bluebirds 6 Proven Tips (2020) Bird For the past few years the population of house sparrows has been declining rapidly. How to attract house sparrows . You can easily attract house sparrows with food and they may feed out of your hand. House sparrows eat various kinds of seeds supplemented by some insects. Having your garden teeming with sparrows are a great way to observe these birds in their natural habitat. A mix of seeds such as commercial birdseed makes good sparrow food. It’s said that there at least 35 species of sparrows in north america, sparrows can also be found in new zealand, asia, europe, and australia, their habitat includes the edges of ...