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"Home gardens can provide vital habitat for Australian birds. But there’s more
to it than just planting certain types of shrubs and flowering trees.
After decades of encouragement to include native plants in home gardens, urban
environments have come to favour certain species and neglect others including
some of our most loved birds, such as fairy-wrens.
Birds that thrive on nectar such as honeyeaters, and bossy birds with bold
personalities such as noisy miners, some parrots and magpies, tend to dominate
the scene. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
We wanted to explore how urban gardens can best support a wider range of
Australian birds. Our new review of research on this topic revealed seven key
considerations. These fall into two themes: reducing threats and improving
habitat.
We found there’s no point doing just the good things (such as plantings) if we
don’t stop doing the bad things (such as killing insects, poisoning owls and
letting cats hunt). It’s like trying to fill a bucket with a hole in it.
So let’s acknowledge the complexity of nature and take a broader approach to
attracting birds to our gardens, by ticking off the items on this shopping
list."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
