Questions tagged [birds]

Winged warm-blooded creatures, family Aves.

Birds are popular warm blooded flying creatures that have wings, are feathered, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate. Classed as family Aves, they are closely related to dinosaurs and some authors class birds as "living dinosaurs".

Birds are important with regards to plants because plants often utilize them to spread their seeds using mechanisms such as . Plants provide habitat for most birds - e.g. roosts and shelter.

Use this tag for all questions about birds that are specific to gardens and gardening. These are questions such as how to encourage birds into your garden, and how to deter birds eating fruit. Questions such as "What is this bird I saw on my tree?" are off topic.

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How can I keep birds off my berries for cheap?

What methods have you seen work other than the standard netting over a plant for keeping birds off plants like blueberries?
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Prevent green parrots dominating the bird feeder

We have a number of bird feeders hanging in our garden, and a reasonable number of different, interesting bird species visit them. We regularly see Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Woodpeckers, etc., as well as the usual starlings, etc. There are large flocks…
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Nesting box cleaning

I was building a nesting box to encourage birds in my garden. It worked, a week ago a family of Blue Tit moved out after a stressful time. I'm curious so I got up to box to check what they left. I was surprised by the size of the nest and would like…
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How to attract white stork (Ciconia ciconia) to a garden?

Is there any way to attract white stork (Ciconia ciconia) to a garden? I found this on the internet, but without much further info: A wikimedia photo of a man-made structure for stork's nest: (is it necessary to construct this to attract storks? is…
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