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Bird-Friendly Communities

Photo: Northern Mockingbird. Photo: Don Swamback/Audubon Photography Awards

Where birds thrive, people prosper.

From urban centers to rural towns, each community can provide important habitat for native birds. In turn, birds offer us a richer, more beautiful, and healthful place to live. Learn more about our Bird-Friendly Communties.

This regional initiative is part of the National Audubon Society's Bird-Friendly Communities strategy.

Bird-Friendly Communities

Take Swift Action to Help An Urban Bird

Bird-Friendly Native Plants

Plants for Birds

Bird-Friendly Communities

Make A Little Room for the Brown-headed Nuthatch

Bird-Friendly Communities

A Little Sign Goes a Long Way

Birds You Can Help Right Now

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Latin: Sitta pusilla

Wood Thrush

Latin: Hylocichla mustelina

Chimney Swift

Latin: Chaetura pelagica

Prothonotary Warbler

Latin: Protonotaria citrea

Bird-Friendly Community Posts

Bird-Friendly Communities

Snap and Share – We Want to See Your Bird-Friendly Backyard!

By Audubon Staff

Got a bird-friendly backyard? We want to see it all!

Bird-Friendly Communities

Zoo visitors view polar bears through bird-friendly glass

By Audubon Staff

In Asheboro, the North Carolina Zoo has installed bird-friendly glass in the recently expanded polar bear exhibit, which will reduce window collisions from migrating and resident birds.

Bird-Friendly Communities

Now is the best time to put up a nest box

By Audubon Staff

Well, the best time for you to put up a nest box in your bird-friendly backyard is anytime you’re ready to do it. And for the nuthatch, the best time is NOW!

Bird-Friendly Communities

Nest Box Nesting Season - Reports from the field

By Audubon Staff

Native Plant Profiles

Plant Beautyberry for Birds

By Audubon Staff

Plant an American beautyberry, and you WILL get a Black-throated Blue Warbler in your yard.

Bird-Friendly Native Plants

Native Plant Brochures Now Available in Spanish

By Audubon Staff

We are excited to announce that all three of our regional native plants for birds brochures (mountain, piedmont and coast) are now available in Spanish

Bird-Friendly Communities

Studying Migrating Wood Thrush in North Carolina

By Audubon Staff

With small GPS units the size of a small backpack, researches can now track the migration path of the Wood Thrush to better understand where they spend the winter and how they get there.