[HN Gopher] Bird watching goes both ways ___________________________________________________________________ Bird watching goes both ways Author : breathenew Score : 34 points Date : 2021-02-22 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.altaonline.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.altaonline.com) | neolog wrote: | There's a lot of text here, not easy to identify the new content. | luplex wrote: | Where I live in Germany, rock climbing is heavily restricted | during nesting season. It's a shame that those birds were | disturbed, I hope they found a different soaked place. | throwanem wrote: | > despite the constant "plant native species" drumbeat from | wildlife advocates, hawks don't really appear to prefer them | | Raptors might not have a preference, but pollinators do, and in | the US that counts for a lot. Planting native species gives | native pollinators a better chance against their more generalist | invasive cousins, the European honey bee (A. mellifera) and paper | wasp (P. dominula). | | It's a good idea to do that, too, since there are a lot of | species which native pollinators can pollinate, but invasive | pollinators don't and can't. More than that, some native insects | are closely enough coevolved with native plants that, in the | absence of the latter, the former fail to thrive or die out | entirely - monarch butterflies, for example, are struggling for | this very reason. | | Audubon's native plant finder is a good place to start - the | email address is optional, all it requires is your ZIP code. | https://www.audubon.org/native-plants | | That said, being from Audubon, it's focused around serving bird | species, rather than insects. For insects specifically, look to | the Xerces Society, which is a conservation society parallel to | Audubon but interested in invertebrates: | https://xerces.org/publications/plant-lists ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-22 23:00 UTC)