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

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In the wild, small rodents keep busy foraging for food, building and maintaining burrows, and avoiding predation. As pets, they need our help to stay active.

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

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