Your Yard as Wildlife Habitat - Division of Extension€¦ · Your Yard as Wildlife Habitat Wisconsin DNR Dianne Robinson What does wildlife NEED? Fruit Producers Wild grape Red-osier

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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

X

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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http://www.zoosociety.org/Education/FunStuff/Birds/BirdDecal.php

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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?

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Your Yard as Wildlife Habitat - Division of Extension€¦ · Your Yard as Wildlife Habitat Wisconsin DNR Dianne Robinson What does wildlife NEED? Fruit Producers Wild grape Red-osier