Bird watching goes both ways
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Bird watching goes both ways
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#2There's a lot of text here, not easy to identify the new content.
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#3Where I live in Germany, rock climbing is heavily restricted during nesting season. It's a shame that those birds were disturbed, I hope they found a different soaked place.
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#4> despite the constant “plant native species” drumbeat from wildlife advocates, hawks don’t really appear to prefer them
Raptors might not have a preference, but pollinators do, and in the US that counts for a lot. Planting native species gives native pollinators a better chance against their more generalist invasive cousins, the European honey bee (A. mellifera) and paper wasp (P. dominula).
It's a good idea to do that, too, since there are a lot of species which native pollinators can pollinate, but invasive pollinators can't, which means these plants rely on native pollinators to reproduce. More than that, some native insects are closely enough coevolved with native plants that, in the absence of the latter, the former fail to thrive or die out entirely - monarch butterflies, for example, are struggling for this very reason.
Audubon's native plant finder is a good place to start - the email address is optional, all it requires is your ZIP code. https://www.audubon.org/native-plants
That said, being from Audubon, it's focused around serving bird species, rather than insects. For insects specifically, look to the Xerces Society, which is a conservation society parallel to Audubon but interested in invertebrates: https://xerces.org/publications/plant-lists
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#5New activity: let's go get watched by birds.
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#6New activity: let's go get watched by birds.
I wonder what the birds around the house think of my tastes in music.
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#7New activity: let's go get watched by birds.
Ornithovoyeurism.
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#8So, it’s not only in Soviet Russia where birds watch you?
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#9New activity: let's go get watched by birds.
Actually, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that animals in zoos enjoy watching the visitors, and that they miss that terribly during the pandemic.
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#10i've got to wonder if the person who wrote this headline is aware of the satirical conspiracy theory:
https://birdsarentreal.com/products/birdwatching?variant=143...