Resources for the Back Yard Birder

Birdscaping Resources

• Audubon: Grow These Native Plants so Your Backyard Birds can Feast
• All About Birds: The Best Trees, Vines, and Shrubs to Plant for Birds
• Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-Friendly Backyard, by George Adams, Timber Press 2013

Taking Wing:

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology: information, plant lists, bird cams, and citizen science opportunities with Project FeederWatch, Habitat Network/yardmap, eBird, the Great Backyard Bird Count
• Audubon
• The Nature Conservancy
• Certify your habitat: Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary Program or National Wildlife Federation: Certified Wildlife Habitat
• American Bird Conservancy: The Truth About Cats 

Favorite Bird Guides

• Project FeederWatch: Common Feeder Birds poster
• Sibley’s Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
• Birds of Seattle and Puget Sound by Chris Fisher
• Sibley’s folding guides: Backyard Birds of the Pacific Northwest and Backyard Birds of the Pacific Northwest Coast