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BIRD sa BIRD CAGE sa BIRD CONTROL sa BIRD DECORATIONS & ORNAMENTS sa BIRD DRAWING & PAINTING sa BIRD FEED sa BIRD FEEDER sa BIRD FIGURE sa BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY sa BIRDBATH sa BIRDHOUSE sa BIRDHOUSE (ORNAMENTAL) sa POULTRY xx ANIMAL xx BIOLOGY Aerodynamic analysis of a bird's wing. Tips for vegetable gardeners. (1) Making a bird spooker. (2) Building a planter box for the lettuce. (3) Screening seedlings with perforated plastic plant flats. (4) Protecting a row of seedlings with nylon mesh supported by 1x1s. (5) Making a zucchini cage. (6) Growing pole beans on a patio up a wire support to form a screen, and (7) Making a cabbage mat. A look at birds that make good family pets. How to bird-proof chimneys and vents. Tip: Keep birds from lighting on top of a fence by adding rows of lightweight plastic fishing line above the fence top. Bird-care basics for pet birds. Tip: A 6-ft. section of old garden hose, painted to look like a snake and wound around the lower branches of a tree will scare away birds that have been roosting there. Short article on parakeet care and training. How to get started in bird watching. A comparison of different pet birds and how much each variety can be trained. Tips on caring for caged birds. Luring birds to your back yard. Suggestions on plantings, birdhouses, and feeding. Breeding and raising parakeets for the pet market. Breeding the graceful black swan. How to attract birds. Includes a list of plants that attract birds. Tips on raising rheas (an exotic bird cousin to the ostrich and emu) which is considered livestock in many places. Tips on feeding birds, attracting birds and helping some of the endangered birds to survive. Handcraft your own bird sanctuary. How to provide the four basic elements which birds need: food, water, cover, and nest sites. Tips on keeping woodpeckers from damaging a house. Device to keep birds from leaving droppings on the framework of a child's swing set. Measures for protecting sweet corn from birds and raccoons. Tip: How to keep seagulls from disturbing new seams in elastomeric membrane roofing. How to landscape to attract birds. Enlist purple martins as your garden helpers. Tips on attracting this bird to nest in your area. Tip: Inflatable toy duck keeps birds away from berry patch. How to identify damage in trees caused by sapsuckers and tips on how to discourage these birds. Tip: Portable frame made from 1" PVC pipe supports netting over blueberries to thwart birds. Attracting spring birds to the garden. Notes special requirements for both winter and summer residents, along with a digest by region of birds that can be seen in the spring. Birds in the winter garden. Suggestions on trees and shrubs that provide birds with shelter and food during the winter. Keeping backyard predators at bay. How to keep cats, raccoons, hawks and other wild predators away from birdhouses and feeders. A look at raising pigeons for meat. Tips on selecting a good breeding pair, building a loft and fly pen, and caring for the birds. The landscaped oasis. Planting for the birds: a gardener's introduction. Portable bird-netting frame is made from PVC pipe. Used to protect strawberry plants and fruit from birds. Please don't eat the garden. Techniques to protect trees and plants from deer, rabbits, mice, and other animals and birds. How to make a papier-mache owl to keep birds away from a cherry tree. How to foil a chicken hawk. Tip: Use lime to protect germinating sweet corn from birds. Net workings. Protect summer crops from scorching sun and scavenging birds by covering them with shade netting or bird netting. Some tips. Tips on building a small pond, bird haven, wildlife blind, garden wall, and playing field in your backyard. Tip: Use sharp pointed nails to keep pigeons from roosting on ledges. Solutions to the pigeon problem. Tips for keeping pigeons from roosting on your house. Easy method for discouraging a pigeon from using a nest site. Tip on how to keep pigeons from roosting on house overhangs. Tips on how to outwit birds in the strawberry patch. Tips on how to keep rabbits, woodchucks, squirrels, raccoons, deer, gophers and birds from ruining a garden or fruit crop. Practical ways to attract the most helpful and colorful birds to your yard. Keep birds from eating cherries by playing a tape recording of tractor sounds. Tip: How to build a frame and hang bird netting to keep birds away from berry bushes. Tip: Use plastic berry cartons to protect sweet-corn sprouts from birds. Tips on preventing birds from eating your grapes. Tip on bagging grapes to protect them from birds. How to make old-fashioned pinwheels to scare off birds. Old curtains keep crows out of fruit trees. Line protects sweet corn seedlings from birds. Rubber bands protect sweet corn from birds. Use red-painted black walnuts among strawberry plants to fool the birds into thinking the berries are inedible. Inexpensive method to support bird netting above seedbeds and strawberries. Tip: Use transparent plastic drop cloths, suspended between trees, to keep birds from eating cherries. How to use finches to fight greenhouse pests. Five cage birds that can be coaxed to earn their keep by eating spider mites, scale and aphids. Tip: Inflated balloons, tied to pegged clothespins and planted around the permieter of a garden, discourages both birds and critters. Tip recommends putting out handfuls of canine fur for birds to use as nesting material. A gardener's best friends. How to attract all kinds of birds to hang around your garden and eat insect pests. Keep birds from building nests in your gutters by vibrating the gutter with an old doorbell clapper controlled by a timer. Experiment tests color vision of pigeons in a homemeade Skinner box. Plans for Skinner box detailed. Device to measure the speed or frequency with which a hummingbird beats its wings. Experiment measures the shadow of the wings via a photocell, with clocking done by a perforated timing disk turning in a record player. Directional microphone for recording bird songs and insect noises on a battery-powered tape recorder. The addition of an electronic trigger will automatically turn the recorder on and off in response to sounds. Analysis of the recorded noise is assisted by graphing the noise on an electrocardiograph. The amateur scientist. A field formula for calculating the speed and flight efficiency of a soaring bird. Based on the work of Paul MacCready, experimenter with human-powered aircraft. Bird-watching by the numbers. How to quantify the behavioral pattern of birds by measuring and/or counting such physical by-products of visiting flocks at their bill holes, feeding zones, footprints, and droppings. Tips on how to cover large windows with clear plastic to keep birds from crashing into them. Tip: Build a tent-like structure from PVC pipe and bird netting to cover a strawberry patch. Gardeners versus birds: Tips on birdproofing your garden. How to foil birds by covering berry plants with a frame of PVC pipe covered with garden netting. An eight-sided cage to keep birds away from a cherry tree. An outdoor aviary. Some practical hints on site selection and preparation. A second article gives advice on choosing birds and providing them with the right diet, care and plants. Tip: Cover young seedlings with black nylon net to protect them from birds. Tips on homemade and commercial products which will discourage woodpeckers from damaging a home (without harming the birds). | |||||||||
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