bird table

British

noun

a table or platform in the open on which food for birds may be placed

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Contact with wild animals, whether a bird table or feeding a hedgehog in the back garden, is all part of the same thing as having a pet.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 25, 2017

Somewhere he can have a bird table and dry his washing outside.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010

We fixed up a bird table, a board sticking out from the sill.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

Some days before, a mountain lion had killed a mountain sheep; a part of this carcass I had dragged to my bird table.

From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills

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