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Woodpecker Houses
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Close to twenty species of woodpeckers
live in North America. Most woodpeckers live all year in the same area and don't
migrate. Woodpeckers can be found in a variety of habitats including farmlands,
open woodlands, orchards, oak and pine woods, parks and gardens.
Woodpeckers are very beneficial to our
environment. They eat thousands of wood boring insects and other garden pests.
You can usually observe most woodpeckers spiraling around a tree trunk in search
of food. Attracting woodpeckers to your own backyard is very enjoyable and these
perky birds will reward you by eating insect pests in your garden such as
crickets, ants, grasshoppers, flies, spiders, wasps, beetles, and grubs. A
single flicker can eat thousands of carpenter ants in one day!
ATTRACTING WOODPECKERS TO YOUR
BACKYARD
Here's some great tips on how to get these perky
birds to visit your backyard:
- Woodpeckers dine mostly on insects, but will also eat acorns, nuts,
fruit, sap, berries and pine seeds.
- Suet, suet and more suet! Offering suet in
your backyard is the best enticement to attract woodpeckers. Smear suet
in the bark of a tree, offer suet cakes in wire cages or other specially designed suet feeders. We also have
ready to use suet cakes available in a
variety of peanut, seed, berry and raisin flavors for home delivery.
- Woodpeckers will come to your backyard feeder if you
have plenty of perching space and offer their favorite food: black oil
sunflower seed. Select a platform feeder or seed feeder with lots of perching space. Some woodpeckers will be
attracted to cracked corn or grapes, raisins and apples on a platform
feeder.
- Create or preserve a snag in your backyard. A snag can be an old
dead tree or tree stump. Snags are extremely important for providing
food, nest sites and homes for woodpeckers. Many woodpeckers prefer dead
or rotting trees for excavating their nest holes.
- Mount woodpecker houses around your yard. See our nesting box dimensions chart for specifications
on some familiar woodpeckers and their preferences.
- Plant an oak tree. Woodpeckers love acorns!
- Plant a pine tree. Woodpeckers will love the shelter they provide as
well as eat the pine seeds and sap.
- Lots of woodpeckers relish the sugar water found in hummingbird
feeders. If they are feeding at your hummingbird feeder, enjoy! If you
want to offer this treat, make sure your choice of hummingbird feeder
has large ports to accommodate their beaks.
- Plant a berry or fruit producing bush or tree such as dogwood,
serviceberry, tupelo, mountain ash, strawberry, cherry, grapes,
bayberry, holly, blueberries, apples, mulberry, brambles, and
elderberries.
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Coveside Downy Woodpecker House
$39.00
America's smallest woodpecker, the Downy is a
backyard favorite. They are friendly little birds that
enjoy being around people. Since Downys tend to use nest boxes in the winter as
roosts to escape the cold, one might want to put up a house in the fall. Comes
standard with slate squirrel guard and wood chips. RANGE:
Resides throughout eastern United States. HABITAT: Likes
open forests of mixed growth, orchards, swamps. (15-1/2"h x 5-3/4"w x 8"d)
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Coveside Northern Flicker House
$44.95
The
Northern Flicker is a woodpecker that utilizes a bird house quite
readily. If there is a problem with a flicker pecking a
hole in a building, fill the this house with wood chips and position it over the
unwanted excavation to provide a more suitable nesting
location. RANGE: Resides throughout the U.S. and
Canada. HABITAT: Prefers open country with trees, parks and
large gardens; especially in or at the edge of open woods.. (17-3/4"h x 9-1/4"w x 11"d)
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Coveside Three Woodpecker House
$44.95
Only a
few varieties of woodpeckers will live in a man-made box, but the Hairy,
Red-headed and Red-bellied Woodpeckers regularly do so.
This house comes with wood chips and a slate predator guard to keep squirrels
from enlarging the entrance hole. RANGE: Resides throughout
the U.S. and Canada, and north to Alaska. Some northern birds move south for the
winter. HABITAT: Lives in or at the edge of open woods,
prefering deciduous forests. (17-1/2"h x 7-1/2"w
x 9-3/4"d)
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Coveside Mountain Bluebird House
$34.95
The
largest of the bluebird houses, this box provides an ideal cavity for the only
"all-blue" bluebird. RANGE: Breeds from southern
Alaska, Mackenzie and Manitoba south to western Nebraska, New Mexico, Arizona
and west to the coast. Winters from British Columbia and Montana south through
western U.S. HABITAT: Breeds in high mountain meadows with
scattered trees and bushes; in winter descends to lower elevations, where it
prefers the plains and grasslands. (12-1/2"h x
7-1/4"w x 9"d)
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Support The Registry of Nature Habitats - Buy Conservation Credits For purchasing Conservation
Credit(s) You will receive a copy of the John Audubon Multimedia
CD A replica of the complete
(1840-1844) James Audubon's
Birds of America
You will also receieve a bluebird
house for each Conservation Credit purchased and a 20% off coupon to be used on
the A Bird's Home website!
 The Registry of Nature Habitats - Mission
Statement
The Registry of Nature Habitats is
dedicated to the preservation of land that, over time, has been a
site and home for complex ecosystems. The Registry advocates
preservation of these lands and its inhabitants, environmental
education for community individuals and groups, and nurturing of
these lands through restoration in order to conserve its
natural resources for future generations.
Preserve
The Registry of Nature
Habitats manages critical habitat, consisting of wetland,
lowland, upland, forest and stream habitat, providing a home
to wildlife species and plant species. As part of
the mission to preserve these lands and its inhabitants,
the Registry will continue to contract with owners
of ecologically sensitive land as it becomes
available.
Educate
The Registry of Nature Habitats is
a "teaching ground," able to provide hands-on, interpretive learning
experiences in areas such as ecology, botany, wildlife science, and
geology, as well as the arts and humanities. The
educational mission of The Registry of Nature Habitats is
to teach an understanding and appreciaton of the environment,
the invaluable lesson of land stewardship of our natural resources,
and to expand the general knowledge of this habitat through
scientific research. This will be accomplished through a
year-round experiential, interactive approach, along
with onsite and outreach activities including providing
educational material both on this website, on media and through
educational seminars. An on-site facility is in the
design phase, which will house classrooms and an administrative
space.
Nurture
Through several restoration
projects, including the rebuilding of stream corridors,
reintroducing native flora, and permitting only low-impact
activities, the Registry is nurturing much land back to
its natural state, undoing the damage of hundreds of
years. The Registry of Nature
Habitats restoration plan, developed with public and private
partnerships and with local community support, will increase
the land's value, enhance wildlife habitat, improve water
quality, and preserve the integrity of the land's
bio-diversity. Renewable
Energy
Promote the use of
renewable and efficient energy technologies through education,
training, workforce development, research, and project facilitation.
The Registry supports clean energy development and energy
conservation as the means to protect the environment, enhance
public health, and save our nature
habitats.
Conservation
We seek to educate people and provide innovative
solutions that will help build a clean, more efficient world, by
reducing energy consumption in a prudent way that does not
threaten the natural balance that supports all
life.
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