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Creating Shelter for Birds
Bird shelter, such as trees, brush piles and nesting boxes, adds warm, dry, safe refuges to your backyard bird habitat.
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Create Natural Nesting Sites
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.
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Making Homes for Bees
Support your local bee population and encourage them into your garden by creating suitable nesting sites. It's easy, inexpensive and fun!
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Build Mourning Dove Nest Baskets
A nest basket for Mourning Doves is one of the simplest kinds of bird house you can build. Place it in shrubs or the branches of a conifer.
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Garden Plants That Attract Birds
Gardeners often choose garden plants that are attractive to birds. Here's a sampling of plants of various types that you might use.
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Hang a Bluebird Nesting Box
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.
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Install a Birdbath to Entice Birds
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.
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Lesser Flamingo – Pink Wader
The Lesser Flamingo inhabits coastal and inland wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It's breeding and feeding habits are unusual and interesting.
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Ruffs – Philomachus pugnax
The male Ruff is a memorable sight in full showy breeding plumage, competing for females at the lek. Ruffs are more commonly seen during migration when males are plainer.
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Where do American Robins Nest?
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
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Creating Wildlife Habitats In Your Own Backyard
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