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HabitatHeroPLANTING A BETTER WORLD
FOR BIRDS AND PEOPLE
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Metrics
Empowering Engagement
Promote citizenship through hands-on
activities that can benefit the greater
community!
• Habitat Hero Certifications, 260+
• Educational Programming, 74 events/3,026 individuals
• Volunteers, 158
• Online Resource Library
• Social Media
• Demonstration Gardens + Signage
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Why Native Plants are Better for Birds, People & Planet
• Better for Birds
• Better for People
• Better for our Planet
• Save Water
• Watershed Value
• Use Fewer Chemicals
• Reduce Maintenance
• Creates Beauty
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Flyways of the Americas
Each year, billions of migratory
birds follow these flyways from
wintering to breeding grounds
and back again.
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Habitat Hero Garden
Components of bird-friendly gardens…
• Diversity of Native Plants
• Habitat Structure
• Water Sources
• Removal of Invasive Plants
• No Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides
• Elimination of Hazards
• Added Stewardship Components
• Community Science
• Volunteer
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Decorative
value ScreensAnchor
Focal
point
Past criteria for choosing plants for our
landscapes
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Future criteria for choosing plants for our
landscapes
weathermoderationsoil
restoration
carbon sequestration
watershedvalue
Food webvalue
Screens
Anchor
Focalpoint
Wildlifeappreciation
Decorativevalue
Mental
health
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Plants Provide Food for Birds
• Insects
• Berries
• Nectar
• Seeds
• Nuts
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Insects
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Specialization is Key
• 90% of the herbivorous insects can only eat the plants with which they co-evolved.
• A world without insects is a world without biological diversity
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537 species of caterpillars 4 species of caterpillars
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Trees
• Hawthorn
• Plums
• Ash-leaf Maple
• Lodgepole Pine
• Ponderosa Pine
• Rocky Mountain Juniper
Best Plants for Caterpillars
Shrubs
• Sandcherry
• Snowberry
• Red Elder
• Serviceberry
• Wood’s Rose
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Birds Need Insects!
96% of terrestrial birds feed their young insects
• Woodpeckers
• Finches
• Swallows
• Flycatchers
• Blackbirds
• Sparrows
• And, so many more!
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Berries
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Trees
• Chokecherry
• Hackberry
• Rocky Mountain Juniper
Best Plants for Berries & Fruit
Shrubs
• Three-leaf Sumac
• Golden Currant
• Boulder Raspberry
• Elderberry
• Snowberry
• Buffalo Berry
• Service Berry
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Birds that Love Fruit!
• Waxwings
• Orioles
• Solitaires
• Thrushes
• Grosbeaks
• Crows
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Nectar
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Early-season Blooming Perennials
• Penstemons
• Nodding Onion
• Sulphur Flower
• Wallflower
• Pasque Flower
• Golden Banner
Late-season Blooming Perennials
• Rabbitbrush
• Sunflowers
• Gayfeather
• Aster
• Goldenrod
• Rocky Mtn. Bee Plant
Best Nectar-Producing Plants
Mid-season Blooming Perennials
• Milkweed
• Harebells
• Aspen Daisy
• Blanket Flower
• Bee Balm
• Black-eyed Susan
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Pollinators Need Nectar!
Not just the birds and the bees…
• Butterflies
• Wasps
• Ants
• Beetles
• Dragon Fly
• Moths
• Bats, … so many more!
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Nuts and Seeds
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Grasses
• Big Bluestem
• Blue Grama
• Switchgrass
• Indian Wheat Grass
• Prairie Cord Grass
Best Plants for Nuts & Seeds
Perennials
• Coneflowers
• Mexican Hats
Trees
• Hawthorn
• Pine (Lodgepole/ Ponderosa
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Great winter-food source
• Juncos
• Chickadees
• Finches
• Sparrows
• Grosbeaks
• Thrushes
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Habitat Layers
Canopy
Midstory
Ground Cover
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Additional Components to Enhance Landscape
• Water Source
• Shelter & Nest Sites
• Brush Pile
• Leaf Litter
• Snags
• Bird & Pollinator Houses
• Feeders
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Get Involved
Learn
• Events & Resources
Certify
• Provides recognition for your work and inspires other gardeners
Volunteer
• Help us grow the native plant movement – planting, tabling, garden tours, word of mouth…
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Q&A
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Thank you!
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704.491.9125
www.rockies.audubon.org
Additional Questions, Reach Out…
Jamie Weiss,
Habitat Hero Coordinator
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Photo Credits
Slide 1: Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo: Larry Rotenburger/Great Backyard Bird Count
Slide 2: Photo: Judith Friend/Habitat Hero
Slide 14: Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Slide 17: House Finch. Photo: Peter Arnold/Cheyenne High Plains Audubon Society
Slide 19: Butterfly. Photo: Douglas Tallamy/Bringing Nature Home
Slide 20: Oak. Michael W. Ray/Creative Commons. Gingko. Photo: Landhalauts/Creative Commons
Slide 21: American Kestrel. Photo: Christopher Ciccone/Audubon Photography Awards
Slide 22: Western Tanager on Douglas Fir. Photo: Timothy Lenahan/Audubon Photography Awards
Slide 23: Downy Woodpecker. House Finch. Photos: Peter Arnold. Barn Swallow. Photo: Brent Daniel. Western
Kingbird. Photo: Mike Daniels/Audubon Photography Awards. Common Grackle. Photo: Peter Arnold. Song Sparrow.
Photo: Brent Daniel.
Slide 25: Cedar Waxwing & Black Cherry. Photo: Will Stuart
Slide 26: Cedar Waxwing. Photo: Erik Eckholm/Audubon Photography Awards. Bullock’s Oriole. Photo: Rick
Derevan/Audubon Photography Awards. Townsend’s Solitaire. Photo: John Morrison. Swainson’s Thrush on Red
Elderberry. Photo: Mick Thompson/Flickr-CC by NC 2.0. Black-headed Grosbeak. Photo: Rick Derevan/Audubon
Photography Awards. American Crow. Photo: Jim Vandegriff / Great Backyard Bird Count
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Photo Credits
Slide 29: Swallowtail. Photo: Will Stuart. Wasp. Photo: Susan J. Tweit. Ant on Penstemon. Photo: USDA Forest
Service. Beetle on Goldenrod. Photo: Amy Yarger. Dragonfly & Hawk Moth. Photos: Marie Shutty.
Slide 31: Goldfinch on Coneflower. Photo: Will Stuart.
Slide 32: Dark-eyed Junco. Photo: Shirely Donald/Audubon Photography Awards. Black-capped Chickadee. Photo:
Becky O'Neill/Audubon Photography Awards. Goldfinch. Photo: Megumi Aita/Audubon Photography Awards. White-
crowned Sparrow. Photo: Adam Wilson/Audubon Photography Awards. Pine Grosbeak. Photo: Audrey Mihalko / Great
Backyard Bird Count. American Robin. Photo: Dennis Atwell / Great Backyard Bird Count
Slide 33: Photo: Robert Petty/Audubon
Slide 34: Hummingbird. Photo: Judith Friend. Mourning Dove. Photo: Tom Moody/Audubon Photography Awards.
Wood Thrush. Photo: Will Stuart. Tree Swallows. Photo: Donald Mullaney.
Slide 35: Photo: Barb Gorges/Habitat Hero
Slide 36: Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo: Jutta Arkan/Habitat Hero
Slide 38: Dark-eyed Junco. Photo: Dennis Derby/Audubon Photography Awards