Yards
Create useful habitat at home with native plants, water, shelter, and safer windows.
Certification program
Bird-Friendly Arkansas
Improve habitat, reduce common hazards, and certify a yard, business, or place of worship as bird-friendly.
Businesses
Improve commercial grounds and operating practices while educating employees and visitors.
Places of worship
Care for congregational property and engage members in practical conservation.
Why it matters
Bird populations have declined by nearly three billion since 1970.
Habitat loss, window collisions, outdoor cats, pesticides, and light pollution are among the threats that individuals and organizations can address on their own properties.
Native plants
Restore the relationships birds depend on.
Arkansas native plants provide seeds, fruit, nectar, shelter, and the insects required by nesting birds. Replacing part of a lawn with native grasses, wildflowers, shrubs, and trees adds meaningful habitat.
Safer properties
Reduce hazards as habitat improves.
Certification also addresses window collisions, outdoor cats, pesticides, outdoor lighting, clean water, feeders, nesting cover, and other practical property-management choices.