Articles related to "Bird Habitats"

You can make your backyard a habitat for wildlife. Just look around for native plants and trees and provide food, shelter, water, and protection for young.

If you have a yard, you are just four steps away from making the perfect backyard bird habitat. Here's how to bring feathery friends flocking to your backyard.

Bird shelter, such as trees, brush piles and nesting boxes, adds warm, dry, safe refuges to your backyard bird habitat.

Construct a large bird feeder that will attract many beautiful wild birds like painted buntings and indigos. This do-it-yourself project offers a safe and inviting home.

Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant these shrubs that feed and house native bird species.

Birders who have only a window or a small apartment balcony may still be able to attract a few birds to their tiny habitat.

The right features can increase your chances of attracting nesting birds to your property and having wild birds nest and raise young in your backyard bird habitat.

Gardeners often choose garden plants that are attractive to birds. Here's a sampling of plants of various types that you might use.

For the gardener who loves both berries and birds, one mulberry tree fills the bill. This valuable tree brings an abundance of fruit and feathered friends to the garden.

Water is one of the things that make good bird habitat. Here are some pointers for choosing a bird bath or water feature, picking the best location, and maintaining it.

With their bright colors, vivid songs and abundant energy, songbirds add an entirely new dimension to gardens.

A garden transition zone, where open space gradually changes to the deep shade of mature trees, is prime backyard bird habitat.

A nesting box has to be right for the bird. Choose a local bird, check box dimensions, hole size and position, and select an appropriate location for a perfect fit.

Wild birds can form a partnership with organic gardeners: we give them food and shelter and they give us song and beauty.

Create water sources and protection for the animals, birds, and insects in your backyard habitat.

A geographically vast country with diverse climates and terrain, Canada has 462 known bird species.

Pileated woodpeckers are common throughout the Eastern United States, lower Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. These large birds are easily identifiable.

North American songbirds face many threats, such as habitat loss, pesticides, collisions with windows, and house cats. Minimizing hazards can help imperiled species.

Grasslands and young forests are essential to maintaining populations of upland game birds and others.

Wind turbines are popping up in many countries - so is opposition to these alternative energy projects that threaten birds.

The deadly parasite Trichomonas gallinae can be spread among wild birds at feeders and bird baths. Bird watchers can avoid accidentally spreading this and other diseases.

You can improve the appeal of your backyard bird habitat by giving birds a dust bath where they can clean and condition their feathers.

The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia boasts a loop on the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail that will introduce the whole family to the joys of wildlife watching.

The way to attract birds to your yard is to provide them with everything they need: food and water, shelter from weather and predators, a place to nest, a dust bath.

Commonly thought to be extinct since the middle of the last century, these birds, the rarest and most endangered birds in America, were perhaps rediscovered in 2004.

La Sierra Nevada is an isolated mountain, set apart from the Andes chain that runs though Colombia and South America. It is the highest coastal mountain in the world.

Students play a board game or an active running game that introduces them to the challenges of migration.

Cape Cod can be a great spot for birding during spring migration. Limited land concentrates the birds into a few key areas. Late foliage makes songbird viewing easier.

Visitors to Sable Island are restricted by strict government guidlines, the animals however, are free live undisturbed in this wildlife haven.

Bluebirds, found throughout most of North America, need places to nest and they'll use a nesting box if it's in the right location and has the right features.

American Robins are common in North America and frequently feed and nest in urban and suburban landscapes. It's easy to attract Turdus migratorius to a bird-friendly yard

Here you will find general descriptions of cranes, birds of prey, and other groups of birds, and definitions of unusual or unfamiliar words we use when we discuss birds.

Peru is home to about 1800 different bird species, and birders see hundreds of species in a single day. Varied habitat and climate support bird biodiversity.

Before travel and communication was easy, most people thought that migratory birds came and went from the home of the gods. Now we know the story is even more amazing.

The challenges and delights of life in the Namib Desert are carefully captured by Director Jamie Uys; think National Geographic meets Pixar.

Woodpeckers are among the birds that prefer suet cakes at bird feeders the most. Following is an easy bird feeder suet recipe for woodpeckers.

Hard hit by habitat degradation and human activity, the well-loved British mammal is in decline. The public is being asked to do their part to help save them.

Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center in Joplin, Missouri invites the whole family to enjoy nature with accessible trails and programming.

Tips for protecting common North American birds, many of which have lost their habitats to farms, development and irresponsible logging practices.

Extremely high levels of the flame retardant PBDE have been found in peregrine falcons, a species once endangered by pesticides. DDT levels still affect some populations.

This common backyard bird may not be as colorful as many songbirds, but it is a fascinating species. Here's some facts about this common mockingbird.

Bill S.22, if passed, would allow Congress to consider funding several conservation projects aimed at protecting valuable natural resources in the USA.

Bald Eagles have gone from plentiful through threatened, endangered, nearly extinct, recovering and now thriving once again.

Balancing the risk of ecological damage from introduced species with reduced pesticide use and the need for protein sources and disease control in developing countries.

Randall Davey, a 1940s New Mexico artist, left an adobe style home, scenic gardens and nature preserve for hikers and birdwatchers to enjoy on a visit to Santa Fe.

Winter and early spring flowers can bring color, structure, and scent to the winter and early spring pond garden.

Birders find Chile a wonderful place to visit because of its wide range of ecosystems and easy-to-spot spectacular birds. Chile has five distinct birding areas.

Southeastern pine forests are home to many common birds of America. Following are descriptions of some of the most abundant ones, and bird identification techniques.

Great Bustards, Otis tarda, native to grasslands of Europe and Asia, are listed as vulnerable. Conservation measures are increasing numbers in some places.

Black-capped Chickadees will nest in a bird house if you use the right design and choose the right location. These birds prefer certain nest box features.