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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

Native Plant Profiles

Phlox: A Sweet Addition To Any Woodland Garden

By maholley

Plant Eastern Blue Phlox for an evergreen ground cover that adds a burst of spring color to your garden, a sweet fragrance, and attracts hummingbirds.

Bird-Friendly Native Plants

Plan a Bird-Friendly Earth Day Party!

By Audubon Staff

Earth Day is right around the corner, what better day to celebrate birds and our lovely planet?!

Bird-Friendly Native Plants

Bird-Brained Landscape Design

By maholley

Learn how incorporating bird-friendly practices into architecture and landscape design can have an impact on the birds in your backyard.

Bird-Friendly Native Plants

Why Bird-Friendly Landscape Architecture Matters

By maholley

Learn how incorporating bird-friendly practices into architecture and landscape design can have an impact on the birds in your backyard.

Bird-Friendly Communities

The Bird Reward for Bird-Friendly Landscape Design

By maholley

Learn how incorporating bird-friendly practices into architecture and landscape design can have an impact on the birds in your backyard.

Bird-Friendly Communities

Seven Things Landscape Design Professionals Can Do For Birds

By maholley

Learn how incorporating bird-friendly practices into architecture and landscape design can have an impact on the birds in your backyard.

Bird-Friendly Native Plants

Bird-Friendly Native Plants for Every North Carolina Gardener

By maholley

These local nurseries across our state have committed to selling native plants to benefit birds. Now it’s your turn to shop local and help native plants take root.