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Tips to Help Birds

It can be easy to promote bird conservation if you're willing to take a few simple steps to do so. These tips can be used to protect the most common backyard birds and the rarest endangered species alike, and they're easy enough for every birder to do.

A Year of Backyard Bird Conservation

Help birds all year long with these monthly tips. From the best food to attracting birds to providing shelter to preventing diseases, these are simple monthly projects every backyard birder can do to help birds.

Find Bird Rescue Organizations

Tips for how to find bird rescue organizations and bird rehabbers, as well as how to know when you need to take a bird to a rescue. Includes tips for what to ask when contacting a bird rescue.

Bird Rescue Wish Lists

If you were running a bird rescue organization, what supplies would you need? How could you use volunteers? What bills would you need to pay to keep helping birds? Learn what is on bird rescue wish lists and how you can help support these vital programs.

10 Fast, Free Ways to Help Birds

Bird conservation doesn't need to mean donating to huge organizations - these 10 easy ways to help birds are all free and can be done quickly by both novice and expert birders.

Prevent Bird Window Collisions

Tips for how to prevent bird window collisions with solutions to be used both inside and outside.

Protect Backyard Birds From Cats

Tips for controlling cat behavior and backyard bird habitats to minimize the dangers of cats to wild birds.

Discourage Feral Cats

Feral cats kill thousands of birds, but these tips offer a range of ways to discourage feral cats from visiting your yard to keep your backyard birds safe.

Protect Backyard Birds From Hawks

Easy tips for protecting backyard birds from hawks.

How to Prevent Spreading Diseases at Your Birdfeeders

Tips on recognizing sick birds and what to do in the event of a disease outbreak.

8 Easy Ways to Help Baby Birds

It's easy to help baby birds with these eight options that can give the babies a safe, healthy environment to grow.

Adopt a Hummingbird

Bird lovers can support bird conservation by adopting wild hummingbirds through reputable wildlife organizations.

10 Ways to Help Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds may be the smallest birds in the world, but they still need big conservation help. Dozens of hummingbird species are vulnerable to habitat loss, predators and illness, and if the birds do become threatened their unique ecological niche and role in plant pollination can suffer greatly. Fortunately, it is easy to help hummingbirds and every birder can take steps to protect the…

10 Ways to Be a Green Birder

10 easy ways to be a green birder and add more environmental sensitivity to birding.

10 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint as a Birder

Birders who reduce their carbon footprints can help lower pollution levels in the atmosphere and give birds a healthier, happier environment.

15 Items to Recycle for the Birds

A lot of common materials can be recycled to help the birds, attract more birds to your backyard or share your love of birding with others. Get started with these easy 15 items to recycle for the birds.

Organizations Where You Can Adopt Wild Birds

Details about adopting or sponsoring wild birds, including 10 organizations that offer wild bird adoptions for conservation efforts.

10 Ways to Help Migrating Birds

Migration is a dangerous journey, and birds that travel hundreds or thousands of miles every year face starvation, predators, habitat loss and...

Hurricane Tips for Birders

It is easy to help your backyard birds stay safe during a hurricane with these simple tips for before, during and after the storm.

Wild Birds Fireworks Safety Tips

Fireworks safety tips for using personal fireworks near backyard and wild birds.

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