How To Build A Simple Owl Nesting Box They'll Actually Like And Use

This simple owl nesting box guide shows you how to customize the design for the specific owl you're hoping to host, so they'll actually move in.

Duck boxes offer a lifeline to wood ducks and other cavity-nesting birds

Duck boxes provide vital nesting sites for wood ducks and other cavity-nesting species, combating habitat loss and protecting ...
The Providence Journal

Want owls in your yard? Build an owl box. Here's how and where to put it

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Anyone with nest boxes told to take on five crucial tasks for garden birds today

BBC Gardeners' World Magazine recently shared a comprehensive round-up of gardening tasks to complete this month, with those ...
The Conversation

Hedgehog conservation: how to make a garden nest box appealing – new research

Abi Gazzard received funding from the People's Trust for Endangered Species and British Hedgehog Preservation Society. When large patches of woodland are swallowed by urban sprawl or when households ...
Star Tribune

Backyard nest boxes give you a front-row seat on birds raising their young

Feeders, water and birdhouses are three good ways to bring birds to your yard. The latter offers pleasures the former do not. Birds that nest in houses or boxes are obligate cavity nesters: obligated ...

Halifax woman encourages DIY nesting boxes to help local bird species

In an effort to help tree swallows find homes and successfully breed, one woman is encouraging Halifax residents to build and ...
Netmums

Gardeners' World warns anyone with a bird box: five urgent weekend jobs to make your garden a nesting magnet

Garden birds are already scouting nest boxes across the UK; learn five quick weekend jobs that make your bird box safer, ...