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Gardening for birds is a journey. One that can take years to come to fruition. Yet, we often see real impact in a short period of time. Explore these before and after images from across the U.S. and Canada.

A garden can be a wonderful refuge for birds and other wildlife. However, it is also a refuge for you—to create, to experiment, and to unwind. Sometimes we are less enthusiastic to invite certain wildlife into this space, particularly those…

Sound is an invisible superhighway of information in the natural world. Countless orders of animal life compete over shared soundwaves in your garden: insects generate a dull roar of chirps and buzzes, frogs inflate their vocal sacs to bellow to…

See how art is being integrated into gardens to add creative flare to our bird habitats.

An in-depth examination of native plant cultivars (nativars), contextualized by research. Can we use nativars with mindfulness to local ecology?

Keeping Our Ecological Jenga Towers Standing Male Downy Woodpecker (left) and larger doppelgänger, a male Hairy Woodpecker (right) feeding on a suet feeder. Photo by Pat Schiller / Macaulay Library. Jenga Tower by Valery Fedotov / Unsplash. This is similar…

Plant Labels and Documenting Additions in Our Gardens—Intentional Choices For Us and the Birds Labels As Reminders, Signals, and Educational Tools This garden in Texas attracted many butterflies and bumblebees. Garden for Birds Participant, 2025. Have you ever walked past…

Hummingbirds are a favorite visitor to our gardens. Add one or more of these perennial plants to help support them.

Attracting birds to our built environments requires a bird-centric perspective. Yes, the plants you choose matter. Yes, the habitat features you add matter. Yes, providing space for them to forage, replenish on water, and raise young matter. Looking down at…