What is the fastest growing outdoor activities in the family in the US? It might just surprise you. Then again, maybe not. Not if your one of the more than 75 million Americans who already enjoys feeding and bird watching. CBS News recently Birdwatching named as # 1 spectator sport in America, more people than NASCAR and all professional sport attracts combined. Backyard bird feeding is run always a close race with gardening for the number one spot for family fun, but both are at the top of the list. Birding in the 1990s experienced a growth rate of 150%, followed by walking at 84%. Other popular activities such as golf, grew by only 29%, where fishing and hunting grew at a rate of less than 10%. And the interest in birding continues to grow. A 1997 article in Newsweek magazine reported that the bird watching would continue to grow faster than the national population in the next 50 years.
But what is it that makes birds and bird watching so popular feeding? Firstly, they are the most visible of all our wildlife. Birds live among people comfortably, singing nest, and flutter past our window and our backyards. They offer a great natural insect control for our gardens. There is a great variety in the number of species and it changes with the seasons. In Nebraska alone about 450 species of birds have been identified. And birds are a source of great amazement. From the intricacies of a nest with a beak only weaving as a tool to locate enough food to feed a dozen hungry mouths, birds are extremely imaginative. And change like seasons, their ability of less than a few hundred miles to travel thousands of miles and at the same near his head in confusion. Biologists believe that birds a variety of senses, when they find their ability to detect the migration magnetic fields, to the stars and terrestrial landmarks with their way. Consider the Arctic tern, whose annual migration extends about 25,000 miles. Adult birds then pass this information to their young, and it is a learned process.
For many people it is not so much look at the complexity of life of the birds that they intrigued. It's just about the beauty of their colorful displays, the relaxation of their singing, and watching her family right outside our window rearing. They become our backyard friends, as we for them to drink extra food and fresh water and bathe in supply. We are creating backyard habitats that provide birds a place to nest and. With cover from bad weather and hungry predators Watch feeding birds and birds helps us more aware of the environment to create, and not only how to make the environment more sustainable for birds, but also for ourselves. For more information on backyard bird feeding and where they are going birds in Nebraska Contact Family the Wild bird Habitat Store, backyard Birding based in Lincoln to see play outside Nebraska since 1993 promoting a healthy and preserve the rich bird heritage in Nebraska, working with the Nebraska partnership for birds feed the so the birds! It makes a big difference.
