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Document Outline
- Recommended Resources
- Please Read This First
- About the Author
- Table of Contents
- 1. Building a Birdhouse – An Overview
- 2. Why Build a Birdhouse
- 3. Types of Birdhouses
- 4. Birdhouses for Different Species
- 5. Materials Used for Building a Birdhouse
- 6. Tools Used to Build Your Birdhouse
- 7. General Specifications for Your Birdhouses
- Specifications for Birdhouses in Inches
- 8. How to Build a Birdhouse
- 9. Tips for Building a Birdhouse
- 10. Build a Birdhouse fromScraps in Less Than an Hour
- 11. Painting or Staining Your New Birdhouses
- 12. Birdhouse Basics - What to Look for in a Birdhouse
- 13. Choosing the Right Birdhouse
- 14. Useful Tips for Placing Your Birdhouse
- 15. How Many Birdhouses Should You Have?
- 16. How to Help Birds Make Their Own Nests
- 17. Nesting Behavior of Different Birds
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- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens)
- Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
- Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
- Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina)
- Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)
- White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
- Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
- Purple Martin (Progne subis)
- Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)
- Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)
- Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)
- Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
- Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)
- Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
- East and West Screech-Owls; Eastern- (Otus asio); Western - (Otus kennicottii)
- Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
- Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
- Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
- European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli)
- House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)
- Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)
- Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
- Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus)
- Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
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- 18. Habitat Requirements for Cavity-Nesting Birds
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- American kestrel
- Ash-throated Flycatcher and Great Crested Flycatcher
- Barn Owl
- Black-capped chickadee and Carolina chickadees
- Chestnut-backed chickadees and Mountain chickadees
- Eastern Screech Owl and Western Screech owls
- House Wrens
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Eastern Bluebird
- Mountain Bluebird and Western Bluebird
- Tree Swallow
- Violet-green Swallows
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- 19. How to Hang a Birdhouse
- 20. Tips for Monitoring and Cleaning Nest Boxes
- Monitoring and Cleaning Birdhouses
- 21. Different Birdhouse Designs
- 22. Birdhouse Design Tips
- 23. Directions for Building a Birdhouse
- 24. A Birdhouse for Beginners
- 25. Purple Martin Birdhouse
- 26. Milk Carton Birdhouse
- 27. Free Woodworking Birdhouse
- 28. Bluebird Birdhouse
- 29. Eastern Bluebird Birdhouse
- 30. Western and Mountain Bluebird Birdhouse
- 31. Traditional Cedar Birdhouse
- 32. Cedar Fence Picket Birdhouse
- 33. Northern Flicker Birdhouse
- 34. Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers Birdhouse
- 35. Free Birdhouse Plan
- 36. Gourd Birdhouse
- 37. Birdhouses Frequently Asked Questions
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- What is the ideal size of the Birdhouse entrance hole?
- Where can I find Cedar Fence Pickets?
- I want to paint my Birdhouse. Is it safe to do that?
- What can I use to hang my Birdhouse, apart from clothes hanger wire?
- Can I nail the Birdhouse in place instead of using screws?
- Why do advertisements read, ‘Perch optional’onl
- What is a ‘Rubber Hose’? Is it similar to garden
- At what height should I build Purple Martin’s Bir
- What kind of roof should I make for the Purple Martin?
- I used no wire when I hung the Birdhouse.Can I do it now? And, if so - how?
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