Monthly Archives: December 2019

Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Bird-safe Windows

Yesterday, while attending my son’s indoor track meet, I was happy to see a huge bird-safe window at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island, NY. Different sized nature and athletic icons are fritted onto the glass on this … Continue reading

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Helping Birds and Wildlife at your Country Home or Ranchette

When I was at Audubon we created some great resources to guide landowners in helping birds and wildlife on their exurban or country yards and property. The best resource was a workbook that I can’t find online anymore, so I’m … Continue reading

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What the heck is a Birdscape?

Birdscaping is the art and science of creating habitat for birds.  While the term is relatively new, building bird houses, putting up feeders, and planting trees and bushes for birds goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years.     In … Continue reading

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Birding for Everyone

I originally posted this review on 2 Dec 2008 at the Audubon Birdscapes Blog, now offline but available on the Wayback Machine Internet Archive (here). If your Audubon chapter or birding club is trying to expand its membership and reach … Continue reading

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New Dutch Urban Bird Materials

Netherlands – Society for the Protection of Birds (VBN) has some great new resources to help conserve urban birds. You will need Google translate or another translation service to read them if you don’t read Dutch, but great info here: … Continue reading

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