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Build a Dust Bath for Birds
You can improve the appeal of your backyard bird habitat by giving birds a dust bath where they can clean and condition their feathers.
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Why Do Birds Preen?
Birds preen to maintain their feathers, to keep themselves warm and dry, to remove parasites, and to strengthen relationships.
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Spring Gardening for Birders
The availability of food, shelter, nesting sites, and water has a big impact on the number of birds that live in your backyard habitat.
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Backyard Restoration Gardening - Book Review
This restoration gardening book gives a history and how-to pointers for gardeners interested in restoring their own patch of California native habitat.
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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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Fun for Pocket Pets
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.
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How to Attract Wild Birds to an Organic Garden
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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How to Attract Wild Birds to Your Yard
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.
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Make Your Own Suet Feeder
Suet is a high energy food for birds. With a few basic tools and a piece of wood, anyone can create a decorative and practical suet feeder.
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Roosters and Hens – All About Domestic Chickens
Chickens are the world's most common domestic bird, outnumbering humans four to one, but how much do most people really know about them?
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What is Anting?
Many species of birds pick up insects and other objects and rub them over their feathers, or allow insects to crawl about on skin and feathers.
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Yellowstone Park's World-Class Wildlife Watching
Yellowstone National Park is world-famous for wildlife watching, but the Hayden and Lamar valleys often offer the best chance to see bears and wolves near bison and elk.
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Birds Glossary
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.
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BLOOMING ALPINES
Surveying the alpine garden and scree beds to see what is in bloom at the moment.
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BLOOMING ALPINES
Surveying the alpine garden and scree beds to see what is in bloom at the moment ">
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Chinchilla
Hunted almost to extinction in the past, chinchillas make very friendly pets. Prospective keepers of chinchillas should be aware of their specific requirements as pets.
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How to Setup a Backyard Chicken Coop
Setting up a chicken coop in an urban setting may seem like a daunting task, but some easy measures can bring the barnyard to the backyard in no time.
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Degus and Dormice and Duprasi . . . Oh My!
Plucky little rodents you've probably never heard of
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Creating an Edge For the Furry, the Feathered, the Scaly
How to garden on the edge - and some living examples of how well it works.


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