How to Attract Birds Using Native Plants

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Hosted by Women4theLand, Sharon Sorenson, author and bird lover, talks about why and how to create habitat for birds using native plants. Women4theLand is an Indiana initiative empowering women farmers, growers, and landowners to make good choices for their land. Learn more at www.women4theland.org
0:00 Introduction
04:28 Why landscaping for birds differs
05:44 Birds share a symbiotic evolutionary relationship with native plants
10:30 To feed birds, first feed the bugs
14:02 You must plant native to save birds
16:55 Bird survival is about habitat
18:06 Trees
20:42 Shrubs
22:14 Vines
23:38 Grasses, ferns, and sedges
26:01 Perennials
29:41 Rules of good bird landscaping
37:23 Wrap up and Resources
Resources:
Books by Sharon:
- Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard
- Birds in the Yard Month by Month: What's There and Why, and How to Attract Those That Aren't
- How Birds Behave: Discover the Mysteries of What Backyard Birds Do 365 Days of the Year.
Sorenson's KZfaq videos, all under 15 minutes:
"Birds and Native Plants: The Essential Connection" • Bird Watching: Birds a...
"Birders Gone Buggy"
• Bird Watching: Birders...
"Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Part 4: Attracting Hummers to Your Yard"
• Ruby-throated Hummingb...
"Woodpeckers, Part 3: Attracting Woodpeckers to Your Yard" • Bird Watching: Woodpec...
"Bird Magnet--Bubbling Rock"
• Bird Magnet--Bubbling ...
Facebook page, focusing on birds and bird habitat: SharonSorensonBirdLady
Website: www.birdsintheyard.com
Native Plant Sources and Helpful Info:
Indiana Native Plant Society - Buy Indiana Natives Directory
indiananativeplants.org/lands...
Xerces Bee Safe Nursery Plants
xerces.org/pesticides/bee-saf...
Xerces KZfaq channel
/ @xercessociety

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@ChiChi-yg9ps Ай бұрын

I hope to achieve this wherever I live now and in the future!

@cdavis8240 Жыл бұрын

Very helpful and right to the point.

@vickiesorenson2385 Жыл бұрын

I got your book and several years back I started to put more bushes and perennials that attract birds. I’ve got lots of natives and have a park area next to my place that has lots of shrubs with berries and also trees with berries . Oak trees, pines, magnolias, dogwoods, Hollie’s, female Chinese pistache trees that have berries, cotoneasters on sloping areas , etc. There are tons of different birds here and I’ve got a lot of hummingbird plants as well. I’m instilling this information into my adult son to be a good steward of the environment. It only takes a effort to research things you can do. Ty for writing your book 📕 and once I move I plan on using a lot less of your suggestions. Too many sterile plants like the agaves etc that don’t provide anything for wildlife . Ty 😊

@LongislandnativeSanctuary 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much this is awesome ❤

@AllThingsConsidered333 Жыл бұрын

I yearn for the day I own my own bit of land out in the country! I have big plans to make it a bird & wildlife haven ❤️ I grew up on a hobby farm and spent so much time outside in the meadows & woods, observing & enjoying all the birds & critters. I ache when I see any new developments or even farm buildings going up. I wish people would appreciate the wild places and protect them more. I take a lot of nature walks and I see so much trash strewn about. Makes me really dislike people even more and long to be a hermit in the woods lol