Choose to live Bird-by building bird-friendly communities, creating bird-friendly buildings and planting bird-friendly plants. The environment to make things bird-friendly includes encouraging dark skies for migration, keeping cats indoors, choosing foods and beverages that are bird-friendly, Reducing or eliminating pesticides through integrated pest management and protecting birds against bird strikes. Do your part and begin at home. Then, when away from home participate in and encourage Urban and Wilderness stewardship.

National Audubon Pages:

• Bird Friendly Communities
• Bird Friendly Buildings
• Bird-Friendly Plants FAQ

Bridgerland Audubon Pages:

• Dark Skies
• Cats Inside
• Smithsonian Bird Friendly^® Coffee
• Pesticides
• Protecting Against Plastic Pollution
• Protecting Birds Against Window Strikes
• Urban Environmental Stewardship
• Wilderness Stewardship
• Wildlife Rehabilitation
• Wildlife Mortality

More Considerations for Bird-Friendly, Responsible Bird Feeding

• Morse, Susan, To Feed or Not to Feed Wild Birds, Bird Feeders Can Be Sources of Joy — and Disease, US Fish & Wildlife Service, https://www.fws.gov/story/feed-or-not-feed-wild-birds
• Huizen, Jennifer, To Feed, or Not to Feed; Backyard feeders are good for birds, as long as you follow these simple guidelines., National Audubon, April 24, 2015, https://www.audubon.org/news/to-feed-or-not-feed
• A Bird Safe Yard Is Absolutely Essential, OrnithologyCenter.com,, Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College, https://ornithologycenter.com/bird-safe-yard-absolutely-essential/