Birdify Your Yard! Landscaping for Birds

What Birds Need For Successful Nesting and Survival:

 Native — Birds rely on native plants for safe nesting and feeding habitat.

 Habitat Structure — Good bird habitat has a mixture of native plants growing at different heights to create habitat structure.

 Healthy Understory —

Most songbirds nest on or American Robin on Nest © Diane Pierce Lazuli Bunting Nest near the ground among native forbs and shrubs. How You Can Create a Bird Habitat Garden:

 Dead Trees — Snags and dead trees provide  native plants in mixed species clumps woodpeckers and other cavity  Create an understory using native grasses, shrubs, and forbs nesting birds with essential  Leave dead or dying trees in your yard nesting habitat and insects to  Avoid mowing, disking, spraying, brush clearing and building feed their young. activities from mid-April-July in the Klamath-Siskiyou region.

 No Disturbance — Mowing,  Reduce predators– keep cats indoors and eliminate outdoor brush clearing, and habitat sources of food which attract rats, opossums, skunks, foxes, and restoration during the nesting jays, all are nest predators eating eggs and young! season (mid-April-July) causes  Discourage non-native predators such as House Sparrows and nests to fail. European Starlings– take down nest boxes being used by these species (for more on safe nest boxes see our nest box handout)  Leave brush piles and pruning debris through the winter to encourage quail and winter sparrows; Golden-crowned and Fox Sparrows.  Use only selective bird feeders, those that exclude jays, cowbirds, starlings, and crows. For more information see our bird feeding handout.

Additional Resources: Klamath Bird Observaotry www.klamathbird.org, Plant Klamath Bird Observatory Oregon www.plantoregon.com, Oregon Native Plant Society www.npsoregon.org, PO Box 758, Ashland, OR 97520 Rogue Valley Audubon Society www.roguevalleyaudubon.org, North Mountain Park 541-201-0866 Nature Center http://www.northmountainpark.org/, National Wildlife Federation www.nwf.org

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When choosing to landscape Savannah Pine-Oak-Madrone/Mixed for birds and other wildlife, Grasses look around your Elymus glaucus blue wildlrye Herbs neighborhood and try to Elymus elymoides squirreltail formosa columbine re-create the habitats in the Festuca idahoensis Idaho fescue chrysophylla yellow iris surrounding open spaces. Koelaria macrantha junegrass Iris innominata Siskiyou iris Psuedoregnaria spicata bluebunch wheat- Lilium columbianum tiger lily The plants listed here are grass Phlox adsurgens woodland phlox examples of native plants by Herbs Polystichum munitum sword fern habitat type of the common Achillea milefolium yarrow Trillium ovatum trillium habitat types in the Klamath- Amsinckia meniesii fiddleneck Siskiyou region. Camassia quamash camas Shrubs Cynoglossum grande hounds tongue Amalankier utahensis serviceberry Castilleja spp. paintbrush Berbrus aquifolim Oregon grape Additional Resources: Clarkia purpurea farewell spring Ceanothus spp. wild lilac Klamath Bird Observaotry Delphinium menziesii larkspur Holodiscus discolor oceanspray www.klamathbird.org, Lomatium utriculatum desert parsley Kalmiopsis Leachiana kalmiopsis Plant Oregon Lupinus bicolor miniature lupine Lonicera ciliosa honesuckle www.plantoregon.com, Plagiobothyrs spp popcorn Oregon Native Plant Society Philadelphus lewisii mock orange Wyethia angustifolia mule’s ears Ribes sanguineum flowering currant www.npsoregon.org, Rogue Valley Audubon Society Sambucus mexicana blue elderberry Trees www.roguevalleyaudubon.org, Symphoriocarpus alba snowberry North Mountain Park Nature Quercus garriana OR white oak Center Quercus kellogii CA black oak Trees www.northmountainpark.org/ Acer glabrum Douglas maple National Wildlife Federation Riparian Arbutus menziesii madrone www.nwf.org Shrubs Calocedrus decurrens incense cedar Prunus virginiana chokecherry Lithocarpus desiflorus tan oak Ribes spp. wild currant Pinus ponderosa ponderosa pine Rosa californica CA wild rose Psuedosuga menzesii Douglas Fir Rubus spp. thimbelberry, Quercus kellogii CA black oak salmonberry Umbellularia califonica CA bay laurel Sambucus spp. elderberry Symphocarpus spp. snowberry See Oak Savannah grasses and herbs Trees Shrubs and Trees betuloides mtn. Amelanchier utahensis servinceberry mohogany Arctostaphylos spp. manzanita Populus trichocarpa black cottonwood Ceanothus cuneatus buckbrush Klamath Bird Observatory Salix spp. willows Cercis occidentalis redbud PO Box 758, Ashland, OR Cercocarpus betuloides mtn. mohogany 97520 541-201-0866 Rhamus californica CA coffeberry

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