Native Plants and Window Strikes

The Sun City Bird Club has a variety of resources that you can use to plant healthy, inviting gardens for our feathered friends. We especially urge you to use native plants, especially trees that are native to this area, since they provide as much as 35 times more food for birds than exotic plants.

In order to successfully raise a brood, songbird parents must feed their nestlings more than 8,000 insects. These beneficial insects, including butterfly and moth larve, proliferate on native trees like oaks. Migrating birds also feed on beneficial insects.

The most important native plant in your yard is the oak tree. You must nurture it, but don’t spray it.