Bird Friendly Resources | The Plants | Pollinators | Species | Habitat

Creating and Maintaining Native Habitat

Designing

• Landscape Features 

• Put Yourself, and Your Yard on the Map 

• Native Plant & Meadow Design 

• How to create a Landscape Binder 

• Mapping Your Yard

• Free Landscape Design App

• 13 Best Free Landscape Design Software Tools in 2019

• Best Free Landscape Design Software Tools In 2019

• How To Use Google Maps to Create a Landscape Base Map

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Maintaining Your Garden

• Top Reasons to Skip Yardwork this Fall

• Don’t spring into garden cleanup too soon!

• The Wildlife Value of A Messy Garden 

• Take Control of Herbicide Use 

• New Evidence Shows Popular Pesticides Could Cause Unintended Harm To Insects 

• 10 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Neonics | NRDC 

• Seven Native Plant Maintenance Tips 

• Rethinking Native Plant Maintenance

• Leave the Leaves (Xerces Society) 

• Leave the Leaves (NC Extension)

• 5 Ways to Keep Your Native Plant Garden Looking Good All Year 

• Six Sustainable Ways to Maintain a Natural Garden

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The Problem with Windows

• Why Birds Hit Windows—And How You Can Help Prevent It 

• Make your windows bird-safe 

• Stop Birds Hitting Windows 

• Things You Can Do to Prevent Window Strikes 

• Stop Birds From Attacking Windows and Reflections 

• A Bird Keeps Flying Into My Window Or Car Mirror, On Purpose. What Should I Do?​

An Unnatural Predator

• Outdoor Cats And Their Effects On Birds 

• Cats Indoors 

• The Moral Cost of Cats 

• The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States 

• Top Reasons to Keep Cats Indoors 

• 6 Reasons You Might Let Your Cat Out, And Why Not To 

• Protect Birds From Cats​

LIGHTS OUT to Help the Critters

• Safety for Migrating Birds

• Lights Out (Audubon)

• Noise and light pollution affect breeding habits in birds

• The Devastating Role of Light Pollution in the ‘Insect Apocalypse’

• Croaking Science: Artificial light at night- a problem for amphibians?

• Light Pollution Affects Amphibians in the Environment

• Light Pollution Effects on Wildlife and Ecosystems

• Light Pollution Harms the Environment

• Want to save millions of migratory birds?

• Light Pollution Solutions for your home

• Wildlife Lighting

• Turn off the porch light: 6 easy ways to stop light pollution from harming our wildlife

• Putting animals in their best light