 Providing bluebird houses has long been a favorite pastime in North America. Bluebirds are loved for their beautiful blue coloring, as well as, their gentle disposition and pleasing voice. The bluebird is the symbol of love and happiness in many of our songs. |
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 Bats are in need of protection if they are to survive. They have proven themselves as valuable members of our ecosystem, and we must increase the awareness of people who have the ability to protect or to destroy these little creatures.
Bats are declining, world-wide, at an alarming rate, due to human misunderstanding. They have typically only one offspring per year, making their comeback slow and in need of our help. |
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 The Butterfly Vivarium is specifically designed as an ideal environment for observing the magical transformation of caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. Its spacious interior is large enough to hold a plant thus providing nutrition for its inhabitants. The screened windows and rough wooden interior provide ideal surfaces for clinging while the sliding Plexiglas front provides easy |
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 The little bird that speaks his name and does acrobatic stunts on tree branches delights all bird watchers. This plump little fellow with the black cap is friendly, and chances are he's been at your feeder in the winter. |
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 The female will lay her eggs in the nesting box, after which her mate has little to do with her. After hatching, the young ducklings are safe from predators only with mother in the water. So at the tender age of one day, they are called by their mothers, and they leap from the entrance hole to the water, or to the ground if the nest is in a tree over land. They follow her around for about two weeks for protection, though they are quite capable of feeding and caring for themselves at birth. |
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 The bird family of Titmice includes 65 species, twelve in North America. These familiar birds include chickadees as well as the Tufted and Plain Titmouse.
They are hole or cavity nesters and take readily to nest boxes. They are small, friendly birds, common at feeders, and the sexes look alike. |
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 This house suits the Great Crested Flycatcher of the eastern U.S., (or the Ash-throated Flycatcher of the Southwest).
RANGE: Breeds in the East from the southern part of the eastern half of Canada, south to the Gulf Coast. Winters in southern Florida and the tropics. |
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 Formerly called the Sparrow Hawk, the kestrel eats insects and small rodents. House includes an internal perch (shown in photo with door open) so mother and babies can keep an eye out for their next meal. |
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 A common bird of deciduous forests and wooded suburbs, the White-breasted Nuthatch can be seen hopping headfirst down the trunks of trees in search of insect food. It frequents bird feeders and takes sunflower seeds off to the side of a tree, where it wedges them into a crevice and hammers them open |
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 None of the species of owl in North America is a nest builder. The Eastern and Western Screech Owls, among others, nest in cavities and take readily to a birdhouse |
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 One of the favorite birds of people who are not necessarily serious students of other types of bird is the Purple Martin. This friendly fellow returns the affection by preferring to live around humans.
The Purple Martin (Progne subis)has been lovingly housed by many for nostalgic reasons -- their grandparents and parents had martin houses. And this bird, for whom everyone watches eagerly in the spring, comes back to his established home year after year. |
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 Everyone just loves squirrels, now you can watch them |
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 Providing a house for these aerial stunt men will bring loads of enjoyment |
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The bird family of Titmice includes 65 species, twelve in North America. These familiar birds include chickadees as well as the Tufted and Plain Titmouse.
They are hole or cavity nesters and take readily to nest boxes. They are small, friendly birds, common at feeders, and the sexes look alike. |
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The Prothonotary Warbler Prothonotaria citre is one of only two warbler species in North America that nests in cavities. The other is Lucys Warbler of the Southwest, and it is not known to live in artificial habitats. The Prothonotary Warbler is a user of birdhouses, and a pair will even use one to raise more than one brood in a year. Different pairs will also use the same house to raise their broods in a given season. |
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 Woodpeckers excavate their own cavities, and some will use a nesting box, while others will not. The North American woodpeckers who use nest boxes fairly often include the Northern Flicker and the Red-headed Woodpecker. Woodpeckers do not bring in nesting material to the birdhouse, since they generally excavate holes in rotted wood, where the soft wood makes good nesting material naturally. So placing wood chips or sawdust in the nest box may help to attract them. |
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