[HN Gopher] Bird watching goes both ways
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       Bird watching goes both ways
        
       Author : breathenew
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-02-22 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 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
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       | 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.
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       | 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
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       | 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
        
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