Turn Your Yard Into a Certified Wildlife Habitat

Birds need your help! The North American bird population has decreased by 2.9 billion breeding adults over the past 50 years, a net loss of 29%. Scientists have identified habitat loss as the biggest reason for the decline.

Wild Birds Unlimited is proud to Champion the National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat®️ Program. Turning your yard, balcony container garden or work landscape into a certified habitat which attracts birds, butterflies, and other neighborhood wildlife is fun, easy, and can help bring birds back.

We can help you create a Certified Wildlife Habitat and make a lasting difference in your own backyard. Ask us how.

 

Help Birds Survive the Heat

During these hot conditions, you will be doing yourself and your birds a big favor by providing them with a reliable source of water.

Water is crucial to birds. Whether they are feeder visitors or not, birds need water. Offering a dependable source of water is probably the simplest and most important step you can take to greatly increase the variety of birds in your yard.

It can also significantly increase your enjoyment of your birds by allowing you to watch their often comical antics as they drink, bathe and preen.

However, as entertaining as it is for us, water (or the lack thereof) can be deadly for birds. Birds must be ready to fly at all times, and bathing is a critical part of feather maintenance and staying in top-flight condition.

Water is also vitally important when it's extremely hot and a bird’s ability to regulate its body temperature becomes stressed. Birds do not sweat and must remove excess body heat through their respiratory system. So when temperatures rise, a bird's respiration rate increases, sometimes to the point that it can be seen panting like a dog. This activity dehydrates birds and increases their need for a reliable source of water to replace lost fluids.

So, while the addition of a bird bath, fountain or mister to your yard can supply hours of enjoyable bird watching entertainment for you, it may also be providing a lifesaving necessity.

How to Attract Hummingbirds

Habitat

Hummingbirds are found in most habitats across North America, including backyards. Offering nectar feeders and nectar-producing plants will help you maximize the number of hummingbirds that visit your yard.

Recommended Feeders

We recommend using the Wild Birds Unlimited Hummingbird Feeder to attract the most hummingbirds to your yard. Designed to appeal to hummingbirds, this feeder allows them to hover or perch while feeding. It does not leak. Bees can’t access the nectar solution, and the built-in ant moat deters ants. The feeder is easy to clean, and the nectar solution recipe is printed under the lid. Lifetime guarantee.

The Wild Birds Unlimited Decorative Hummingbird Feeder adds an aesthetic flair to your yard, is available in the three most popular flower colors for hummingbirds and has the same great features as our standard hummingbird feeder. Lifetime guarantee.

Based on our standard feeder, the Wild Birds Unlimited Decorative Window Hummingbird Feeder brings the birds in for closer views. Watch their tongues lap up the food, darting in and out of the nectar solution up to 12 times per second. It is the only window hummingbird feeder that contains an ant moat. Lifetime guarantee.

We offer assorted decorative glass or ceramic hummingbird feeders. They are beautiful for you and functional for the birds.

Recommended Items

Offer our Wild Birds Unlimited Nectar, or mix up your own water and sugar (4:1 ratio). Clean nectar feeders every two to four days; then fill with fresh nectar solution.

Use the Wild Birds Unlimited Nectar Port Brush to keep your feeder clean and presentable for hummingbirds.

Keep ants out of non-WBU nectar feeders with the Trap-It Ant Moat.