Posted October 12, 2015 6:23 am by Comments

By Vanessa Torres

Cooper's Hawk
Arkansas Backyards Could be a Boon For Urban Birds
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

Arkansas -(Ammoland.com)-“Field of Dreams” taught us that if you build it, they will come. But the truth isn’t so straightforward, at least when it comes to birds and birdfeeders.

Other Arkansas backyards with features are far more likely to entice birds than a fancy-looking seed dispenser. That’s one of a number of findings in a new paper from University of Illinois biologists J. Amy Belaire, Christopher J. Whelan and Emily S. Minor.

The researchers point out that while parks and preserves are important refuges for urban wildlife, the so-called matrix – which they describe as the “mosaic of land uses between habitat patches” – is equally important. In many ways, it’s easy to manage parks and preserves, since they’re overseen in most cases by municipalities. It is far harder to manage property owners’ yards, which can add up to more than a third of the urban landscape. But if there was a way to manage them, then together they could form corridors that urban wildlife could use to move between larger patches of more natural habitat.
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