Good News!  Friendly Backyards Help Migrating Birds on Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Science Daily reports that new research is showing that even tiny patches of woods in urban areas seem to provide adequate food and protection for some species of migrating birds as they fly between wintering and breeding grounds.

Photo of Lazuli Bunting feeding, by Ed Hepp

If the following does not inspire you to go outside and fill your seed, suet and nectar feeders . . . . what could?!  This good news is more fuel for the “cause” of habitat restoration; one backyard at a time!

From ScienceDaily on May 18, 2010:  “The good news is that the birds in our study seemed to be finding enough food in even the smaller urban habitats to refuel and continue their journey,” said Stephen Matthews, co-author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University.”

Read the entire article by clicking this link:  ScienceDaily May 18, 2010