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Wild Birds Unlimited is a retail store that specializes in bird seed, bird feeders, and many other bird feeding supplies.

Jim Carpenter opened the first Wild Birds Unlimited in 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

By 1983, Carpenter started franchising his concept.

Wild Birds Unlimited has grown to over 300 stores across the United States and Canada.

Bird feeding is the activity of feeding wild birds, often by means of a bird feeder.

History.

James Fisher wrote that the first person recorded as feeding wild birds was the 6th-century monk Saint Serf of Fife who tamed a pigeon by feeding it.

During the harsh winter of 1890-1891 in the United Kingdom national newspapers asked people to put out food for birds.

In 1910 in the United Kingdom, Punch magazine declared that feeding birds was a "national pastime." Bird feeding has grown into the United States' second most popular hobby behind gardening.

To celebrate the bird feeding hobby, February was named National Bird-Feeding Month by congressional decree in 1994.

A hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time.

Hobbies can include collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing other amusements.

A list of hobbies is lengthy and always changing as interests and fashions change.

By continually participating in a particular hobby, one can acquire substantial skill and knowledge in that area.

Engagement in hobbies has increased since the late nineteenth century as workers have more leisure time and advancing production and technology have provided more support for leisure activities.

As some hobbies have become less popular, like stamp collecting, others have been created following technological advances, like video games.

Expert is defined differently in varying academic fields.

Psychology defines an expert using superior performance; sociology considers that expertise is a label given to an individual by a group and is interested in the power held by experts; philosophy stresses the kind of knowledge held by experts but not novices.

Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.

An expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability based on research, experience, or occupation and in a particular area of study.

Experts are called in for advice on their respective subject, but they do not always agree on the particulars of a field of study.

An expert can be believed, by virtue of credential, training, education, profession, publication or experience, to have special knowledge of a subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely upon the individual's opinion.

Historically, an expert was referred to as a sage (Sophos).

The individual was usually a profound thinker distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment.