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Birdhouses

Adding a birdhouse to your backyard can turn it into a nestling nursery, but to do so you need to know how to build or buy the best birdhouses for your local flocks and how to place, clean and care for their homes. This information can help your yard become a busy bird hotel.
Bird Roost Boxes
Bird roost box design basics, including what features are necessary, how to position a roost box and other tips to attract birds with this type of shelter.
Barn Owl Nest Boxes
Tips for choosing and positioning barn owl nest boxes, including a list of nest box retailers.
Birdhouse Hole Sizes
Preferred birdhouse hole diameter sizes for common backyard nesting birds. Includes tips for how to increase or decrease hole sizes.
GreenBird House
Review of the recycled paper Greenbird House.
Make a Safer Birdhouse
Twelve tips for safe and attractive birdhouses.
Birdhouses 101
Birds prefer specific types of houses and Birdhouses 101 offers parameters and guidelines for building birdhouses for more than 50 species. Additional tips on feeding, house placement and bird behavior are included.
Before You Build a Birdhouse
Tips for choosing birdhouse plans and online plan resources.
The Purple Martin House
This comprehensive resource offers sales of different types of birdhouses for purple martins as well as house accessories, purple martin housing and care tips and seasonal migration maps.

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