Many of the
birds that visit feeders and baths may stay and nest in nearby
trees. Most of them, including cardinals, doves and orioles,
don’t nest in boxes. You can still help them by considering
their food and shelter requirements in your landscape plans.
Selecting a House In the bird
house business, there’s no such thing as “one
size fits all.” Decide which bird you want to attract,
then get a house for that particular bird.Look through any
book or catalog and you’ll see bird houses of all sizes
and shapes, with perches and without, made of materials you
might not have thought of: recycled paper, gourds, plastic,
rubber, pottery, metal and concrete. The proper combination
of quality materials and design makes a good birdhouse.
More than two dozen North American
birds nest in bird houses.
The following is a list of birds that will use nest boxes.
Bluebirds, American Robins, Chickadees,
Nuthatches, Titmice, Brown Creepers, Prothonotary Warblers,
Wrens, Tree and Violetgreen Swallows, Barn Swallows, Phoebes,
Purple Martins, Flycatchers, Woodpeckers, and Owls. |
