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Hummingbird BabiesIt’s Worth the Risk for Mom

As you read this, millions of birds are on the most hazardous journey of their lives as they migrate north to nest.

Long migrations are deadly for birds. It is estimated that about half of all migrating birds do not survive the annual round trip.

The hazards they face include bad weather, predators, exhaustion over water, collisions with towers and buildings, and starvation due to the lack of suitable stopover habitat along the way.

So why take the chance? Why would a bird that has all the necessities of life in the tropics subject itself to all of the dangers of flying north in the first place?

It all has to do with giving their nestlings the best odds for starting their lives.

It’s worth the journey to the northern hemisphere as it has much more land mass than the wintering grounds in the southern hemisphere. Millions of birds have more space in which to spread out and establish larger nesting territories that offer less competition for food and a better chance of avoiding detection by predators.

In addition, as the birds migrate north, the hours of sunlight per day grow longer. This advantage allows birds to make many more feeding trips to their young every day. The young grow faster, leave the nest earlier, thus shortening the dangerous nesting period.

So for mother birds, this dangerous migration has evolved into a risk worth repeating for the good of their young and their species as a whole.

Visit us soon. We have all of the expert advice and quality products that will give the nesting moms in your yard a helping hand that will make the risks of migration even more worthwhile.

Gregory Millslagle, Store Owner
www.wbu.com/yorktown

Jim's Birdacious Bark Butter

Now Every Tree is a Birdfeeder ®

Jim Carpenter, an avid nature enthusiast and the founder and CEO of Wild Birds Unlimited, created Bark Butter over 20 years ago and used it to attract Brown Creepers.

However, through the years Jim discovered that it attracts over 115 species of birds including thrushes, warblers, thrashers, orioles, catbirds, cardinals, mockingbirds, wrens, woodpeckers, juncos, towhees, grosbeaks, robins and more. See the current bird list.

Jim has released his creation and made it available to the public! Stop by our store and pick up a tub of your own.