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Your Yard as Wildlife Habitat
Wisconsin DNR
Dianne Robinson
What does wildlife NEED?
Fruit Producers
Wild grape
Red-osier dogwood
Nectar
Serviceberry
Bergamot
Nut Producers
Shagbark hickory White oak
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Insects Critters
Alien Invaders
Multi-flora Rose
European Highbush Cranberry
Glossy Buckthorn
Water Neighborhood landscaping
Size doesn’t matter
Shelter
Who can live in here? CWD: The GOOD stuff
Space
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Use your space!
Winter migrants
Breeders
Wetlands
Grasslands
Urban Hazards
Pet Hazards
Lyme disease
Distemper, rabies
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American Bird Conservancy
Non-reflective
Frosted
Away from feeders
Horizontal stripes: 2 inches Vertical stripes: 4 inches
What wildlife do you have?
What wildlife do you want?
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Space
Food
Nesting/Cover
VARIETY Nestling
Fledgling
Precocial
Nesting trees
Critters
SPACE
Great horned owl
Broad winged hawk
Coopers hawk • Food: insects
• Temperature regulation
• Cover
• Wildflowers across season
• Host plants Milkweeds, asters, violet, little bluestem …
• Water
Evening wildflowers
Sheltered corners
No pesticides
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Common urban critter
Small mammals
Space
DISTANCE
• Insects, worms, grubs
• Den site
DISTANCE
• Omnivore
• Den site nearby Snag, rock or brush pile
• Highly adaptable
NO human food
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• Nuts, fruits, seeds
• Snags and mature trees
• Ground burrows
• Grasses
• Common urban wildlife
• Nest site
• Space
• Food – Your garden?
• Cover
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WI DNR: Search “Wildlife and Your Land”
NWF: Search “Certified Wildlife Habitat”
WI DNR: Search “Keep Wildlife Wild”
Questions?