Landscaping for Birds...The Seed Eaters American Goldfinch are strict vegetarians.They prefer...

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Marne Titchenell, Extension Program Specialist – Wildlife School of Environment & Natural Resources Landscaping for Birds: Providing Bird - Friendly Backyards

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Page 1: Landscaping for Birds...The Seed Eaters American Goldfinch are strict vegetarians.They prefer sunflowers, thistle, asters, birch, and elm seeds. Seeds make up 75% of a Dark-eyed Junco’sdiet.

Marne Titchenell, Extension Program Specialist – Wildlife

School of Environment & Natural Resources

Landscaping for Birds:

Providing Bird-Friendly Backyards

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General Birdscaping Tips:

Look for any

combination of these

characteristics when

choosing your plants:

Dense growth form

Evergreen leaves

Thorns or spines

Produces fruits,

seeds, or nuts

Nectar-rich flowers

Shade-tolerance

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General Birdscaping Tips:

Choose plants that bloom and

provide food in different

seasons, throughout the year.

Blossoms in spring

Summer fruit

Fall seeds

Winter-persistent berries or nuts

** A variety of native plants will

attract the greatest diversity of

bird species.Cedar Waxwing

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The Seed Eaters

American Goldfinch are strict vegetarians. They

prefer sunflowers, thistle, asters, birch, and elm

seeds.

Seeds make up 75% of a Dark-eyed

Junco’s diet.

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Herbaceous Plants

Great for a source of seeds, insects, & nesting material

Sunflowers (Helianthus)

Aster spp.

Black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia)

Ironweed (Vernonia)

Coneflower (Echinacea)

Coreopsis spp.

Native goldenrods (Solidago)

Milkweeds (Asclepias)

Cinnamon fern (Osmunda)

Native thistles

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Herbaceous Plants for Hummingbirds

Cardinal flower

Great blue lobelia

Wild columbine

Beards tongue

Beebalms

Butterfly weed

Foxgloves

Phlox

Salvia (S. azurea)

Hosta spp.

Raspberry

Jewelweed

Choose flowers that are:

Tubular

Horizontally positioned

RED and/or Orange

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Trees & Shrubs for Birds* = less tasty to deer

Fragrant sumac*

Staghorn sumac

Viburnum

Red osier dogwood*

Yellow twig dogwood

Winterberry holly

Red chokeberry*

Black chokeberry

Spicebush

American elderberry

American crabapple

American holly

Chokecherries

Flowering dogwood

Hawthorn

Persimmon

Serviceberry

Oaks, hickories, beech

Willow, cherry, plum,birch

TreesShrubs

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Trees & Shrubs for Birds AND Pollinators

Serviceberry

Hackberry

Eastern redbud

Maple

Apple, Plum

Persimmon

Hazelnut

Hawthorn

Black gum

Sumac

Viburnum

Oak

Willow

River birch

Black cherry

Yellow poplar/tuliptree

Crabapple

Dogwood

Spicebush

Sassafras

Elm

Host PlantsNectar/Pollen

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Want to Learn More?

All About Birds – Cornell Lab of

Ornithology

www.allaboutbirds.org

Birds of North America

www.birdsna.org

eBird – Animated maps

ebird.org/science

Audubon Guide to NA Birds

audubon.org/bird-guide

Thank

you!!

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Questions?

Marne Titchenell, OSU Ext. Wildlife Specialist

[email protected], (614) 292-0402


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