LIVING BIRD FRIENDLY

Roaring Fork Audubon’s Top 9 Tips for Bird-Friendly Living!

1. Keep Your Cat Indoors. Even well fed cats kill birds – a mean of 2.4 billion a year! Our birds will live, and your cat will be healthier and safer. Learn more about bringing back the birds at Stateofthebirds.org

2. Eliminate Your Use of Pesticides and Herbicides. They stay in the food chain killing birds, beneficial insects, mammals and pets and harm your family.

3. Drink Shade-Grown Coffee! Birds and mammals rely on trees to survive. If you care, make sure it is shade grown! Look for the Frog or Smithsonian Stamp.

4. Do Not Use Rodent Poisons. Owls, hawks, fox, pets, etc., are poisoned by eating the dead rodents that move outside to slowly die.

5. Prevent Window Strikes. Over a billion birds die each year as a result of hitting windows.

6. Provide Birds with Fresh Food and Clean Water. Our winter birds must eat to survive! For information on how to purchase, clean, fill, and locate. View Feeding Birds

7. Plant Native. Plan your yard for diversity. Plant native grasses, flowers and shrubs. Have your yard certified by the National Wildlife Federation. Encourage schools to do the same.

8. Prevent small animal death pipes! Any open-top, vertical pipe can be a death trap to birds and other wildlife.

9. Join Us! Learn about our natural world, enjoy camaraderie and love protecting our birds and other animals.