Content
- The most beautiful trees for birds
- Why is it so important to make the garden bird friendly?
- So you garden the garden friendly
- Prefer native woody plants
- Tips
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The most beautiful trees for birds
Songbirds, like many insects, have become rare in our latitudes. With a bird- and insect-friendly garden, you help the animals find both a habitat and sufficient food. The cheerful birdsong is the best reward for that. In particular, native trees and bushes offer plenty of hiding places, breeding grounds and a rich food supply.
Why is it so important to make the garden bird friendly?
Suitable living spaces have become scarce, and not just in the cities and metropolitan areas. Increasingly large areas are concreted, while in the small row house gardens due to the lack of space and the nursing effort less trees are planted - and if, then often ecologically completely useless hedges and shrubs such as the now widespread cherry laurel. In the countryside, huge monocultures dominate, rarely interrupted by shrubs and trees. So in our sprawling cultural landscape, there are hardly any places left to provide birds with protection against predators, breeding grounds and food. With a bird-friendly garden, you will create a sanctuary for the endangered animals and help to prevent endangered species from extinction.
So you garden the garden friendly
For a garden to be attractive to birds, there must be dense hedges and shrubs as well as larger trees. Smaller birds such as the still common blackbird, but also blackcap, greenfinch or red-backed shrike prefer dense shrubs and hedges, which bloom abundantly in spring (and thus attract many insects) and offer delicious fruits in the fall as food. The thicker and thinned such a hedge, the more protection it offers from birds of prey and ground raiders - especially as such a hedge allows a great view protection. Other birds, on the other hand, need large trees, such as the bullfinch, the jay, the chaffinch, the various species of woodpecker or the nuthatch. Older trees and shrubs also attract cave-breeders who set up their breeding holes in the holes in the wood. You can also help these bird species by hanging nesting boxes in sheltered locations.
Prefer native woody plants
When choosing bird-friendly garden trees, you should primarily choose native trees and shrubs. Imported species are often unsuitable because they are not accepted by the animals and therefore are worthless from the ecological point of view. Instead of the unfortunately ubiquitous cherry laurel you should do better
Tips
Let the deciduous foliage fall calmly - when it rots, it will serve as a fertilizer to the tree and many insects will happily hide in it. Even fallen fruit and fruit remaining on the tree can remain in place - they serve as food for the birds in winter.