urbanbirds

Maybe you have seen the great photos that Dr. Nick and Lucy have been posting on Twitter and other social media of the Powerful Owls they have come to know in Brisbane? They discuss these #Powls with Dr. Holly Parsons, Manager of Birdlife Australia's Urban Birds program and Birds In Backyards, and Grant.

Get to know how these impressive, nocturnal raptors are thriving in the inner suburbs of one of Australia's largest cities.

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This bonus episode is the audio from the live stream recently conducted with Robert Ashworth, A Masters student at Melbourne University. Robert is running a Citizen Science project about known nesting sites and hollows used by the Australian grass-parrot, the Red-rumped Parrot (Psephotus haematonotus). Robert is looking for you to report any instance you know of Red-rumps using a hollow for nesting, no matter when you witnessed it!

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Our world is becoming more populated with urban areas increasing. This causes more traffic, more noise and more streetlights. How can birds thrive in these urban environments? Birds already face so many challenges without human intervention; but now they have to navigate daily flight paths will tall buildings made of windows, migration paths that are becoming more lit up at night and communicating with each other above all the noise. How can we make our cities more bird friendly? 

Timothy Beatley addresses some of these challenges in his new book,  The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats.  He is my guest on this episode of the podcast and our discussion includes the topics below:

examples of bird safe environments

biophilic cities - check out www.biophiliccities.org 

catios- a way to keep birds safe from domestic and feral cats\

how we can create safe habitats in our own backyard

incorporating bird safe measures in architecture - you don't have to sacrifice cool designs to make a building bird friendly - Tim shows many examples in his book.

The Bird-Friendly City is published by https://islandpress.org/books/bird-friendly-city and if you want to purchase a book please click the link above and use the discount code: BEATLEY to get a 10% discount. 

Background music is by Adrian Walth and is titled For the Birds.

Thank you for visiting and stay safe and stay healthy!  Now get outside and look for birds!