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It’s Time to Clean Out Your Nest Boxes

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Birds can be attracted to your home simply by offering food, water and shelter. Tangles of wild plants and dense undergrowth left to thrive in chosen areas of your property will provide shelter, protection, and natural nesting and roosting sites. Trees and shrubs that yield fruit, berries, seeds, nuts and cones will provide food.

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Best Birds of my First Year with 10,000 Birds

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I do not have a life list for those birds I saw in my youth, 45 years ago, in California. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! And Oystercatchers are very amusing birds.

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Hope for Hen Welfare

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history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for rescued farm animals.

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. You can download the information on controlling Cliff Swallows in PDF format from the University of California here. Because IT IS ILLEGAL TO INTERFERE WITH NESTING BIRDS!! Authors: T.

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