CNP Design and Maintenance Considerations for Building Bird Habitat with Native Plants (E)
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Limited Access Recording Paid Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Birds can be an indicator of the health and biodiversity of the landscapes around us. Our landscape design and management practices can make a big difference in whether birds decide to ignore or explore our built environments.
Part One - Introduction to Bird-Friendly Habitat
• How to make birds disappear
• Native plants are critical for birds
• Types of resources plants provide
• Kestone species
• Invasive plants at a glance
• Improving habitat resources
Part Two - Design Considerations for
Developing Bird-Friendly Habitat
• Ecology lights a path
• Lessons from SITES and hierarchy of
landscape intervention
• Basic habitat structures
• Landscape layers through the lens of ecology
• Amplify resources
• Disturbance
Part Three - Managing Bird-Friendly Habitat
• You might be scaring them away
• Gardening by subtraction
• Realigning management with bird lifestyles
• Building habitat through management