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Create Bird Habitat at Home with Native Plants
Native plants are the building blocks of a healthy, diverse habitat.
© Amaury Laporte
Birds have lost many habitats they’ve called home for millions of years, but people can help create bird habitats wherever they live. It all begins with native plants. If you have a yard, or even just a few outdoor plant pots, you can offer native plants to birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Below, find online tools that show you native plant species ideal for your location.
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Create Bird Habitat at Home with Native Plants
Written by Conor Gearin
This is BirdNote.
[Red-bellied Woodpecker calls]
Birds have lost many habitats they’ve called home for millions of years, but people can help create bird habitats wherever they live. It all begins with native plants. They’re the building blocks of a healthy, diverse habitat.
If there are organizations planting native species around town, volunteering with them is a great way to support healthy ecosystems where you live, and meet like-minded folks, too.
[Gray Catbird song]
If you have a yard, or even just a few outdoor plant pots, you can offer native plants to birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Visit BirdNote dot org to find online tools that show you plant species ideal for your location.
[Gray Catbird song]
And you can go further by getting your garden approved as Certified Wildlife Habitat, a program of the National Wildlife Federation. By demonstrating that you’re providing food, water, shelter, places to raise young, and are using sustainable practices, you can get a sign that lets everyone know your garden is more than a garden, it’s Certified Wildlife Habitat.
[Ruby-throated Hummingbird calls and wing hum]
BirdNote has inspired millions of people to take action for birds. Learn more about the difference you can make at BirdNote.org. I’m Ariana Remmel.
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Senior Producer: Mark Bramhill
Producer: Sam Johnson
Managing Producer: Jazzi Johnson
Managing Producer: Ariana Remmel
Content Director: Jonese Franklin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Red-bellied Woodpecker ML105714 recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller, Gray Catbird ML534675 recorded by Wil Hershberger, and Ruby-throated Hummingbird ML105602 recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller.
BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
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Narrator: Ariana Remmel
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Conor Gearin
Writer